Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf 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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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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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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