There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETreat 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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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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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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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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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 highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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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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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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