Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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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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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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When 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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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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