Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best That is our besetting danger.
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It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors.Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Flowers are beautiful hieroglyphics of nature, with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
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The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.
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There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.
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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
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