"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."
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"Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child."
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"To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult."
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"Wisdom is found only in truth."
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"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love"
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"The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility."
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"To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods."
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"No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod."
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"Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes."
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"Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution."
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"Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever."
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"One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude."
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"As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth."
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"People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities."
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"The man of understanding finds everything laughable."
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"At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike."
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"Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck, Ich fuhl es wohl noch bin ich weit zuruck.]"
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"Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness."
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"Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose."
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"What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner."
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