Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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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.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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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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If 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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