One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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Remember to live.
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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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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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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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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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