As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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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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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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