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My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image. ↗

— William Godwin

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Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Common sense is the genius of humanity. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#opportunity #talk #well #whenever #you

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

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It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on. ↗

— Emma Goldman

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