How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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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 heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes 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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A person hears only what they understand.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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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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