If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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