Few people have the imagination for reality.
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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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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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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