The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEInstruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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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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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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