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 I love you, what business is it of yours?
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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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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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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