He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere 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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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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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Leap and the net will appear.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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