Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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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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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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