What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhen 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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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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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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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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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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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