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The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
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A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.
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He who can not learn to love must flatter.
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Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages.
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There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.
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One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
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The world remains ever the same.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Faith is hidden household capital.
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On all the peaks lies peace.
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Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.
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Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.
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Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. Where the thing you wish to know is so dominant that you must breathe its very atmosphere, there teaching is moat thorough, and learning is most easy. You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy boat among miners; and so with everything else.
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Miracle is the pet child of faith.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
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Only law can give us freedom.
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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
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What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
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Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.
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It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe