Quotes 241 till 260 of 323.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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Their is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
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There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
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There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god, for dominance. In all great men this mixture is striking, and in none more so than in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
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There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
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There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.
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There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
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There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.
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There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
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This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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Those are dead even for this life who hope for no other.
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Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
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Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
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