Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhen scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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