"Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road."
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"Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."
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"Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad."
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"There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis."
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"I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner."
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"The question "From where does the poet get it?" addresses only the what, nobody learns anything about the how when asking that question."
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"He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them."
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"Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over."
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"Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition."
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"One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others."
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"If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet."
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"If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning."
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"The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses."
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"Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?"
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"No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country."
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"He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues."
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"How much there is in books that one does not want to know, that it would be a mere weariness and burden to the spirit to know."
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"God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will."
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"Language buries, but does not resurrect."
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"weltschmerz: its the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be."
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