Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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