One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHENothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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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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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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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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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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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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Leap and the net will appear.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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