He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEInstruction does much, but encouragement everything.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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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.
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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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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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