Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
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Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose
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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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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 possible, speak a few reasonable words.
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Vi som mötas några korta stunder, barn av samma jord och samma under. på vår levnads stormomflutna näs! Skulle kärlekslöst vi gå och kalla? Samma ensamhet oss väntar alla, samma sorgens sus på gravens gräs.
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Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them.
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On September 17, 1914, Erzberger, the well-known German statesman, an eminent member of the Catholic Party, wrote to the Minister of War, General von Falkenhayn, We must not worry about committing an offence against the rights of nations nor about violating the laws of humanity. Such feelings today are of secondary importance? A month later, on October 21, 1914, he wrote in Der Tag, If a way was found of entirely wiping out the whole of London it would be more humane to employ it than to allow the blood of A SINGLE GERMAN SOLDIER to be shed on the battlefield!
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years.
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If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
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If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick
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You are aware of only one unrest;Oh, never to learn the other!Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast,And one is striving to forsake its brother.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
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The world remains ever the same.
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The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.
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The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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Live dangerously and you live right.
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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
Love
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