It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
A useless life is an early death.
Mastery passes often for egotism.
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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