There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBehaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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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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And all must follow in my wake.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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