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 GOETHEBeauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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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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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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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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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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