"The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion."
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"True happiness springs from moderation."
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"Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love"
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"The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace."
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"We find from experience that yellow excites a warm and agreeable impression.... The eye is gladdened, the heart expanded and cheered, a glow seems at once to breathe toward us."
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"If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation."
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"The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds."
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"If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own."
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"The little man is still a man."
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"The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!"
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"One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best."
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"If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them."
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"Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about."
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"Mystery is truth's dancing partner."
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"I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow."
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"A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others."
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"What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away."
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"A good person, striving dimly, Is well aware of the right path."
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"The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active."
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"You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer, With deepest power, in simple ways. You’ll sit forever, gluing things together, Cooking up a stew from other’s scraps, Blowing on a miserable fire, Made from your heap of dying ash. Let apes and children praise your art, If their admiration’s to your taste, But you’ll never speak from heart to heart, Unless it rises up from your heart’s space."
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