The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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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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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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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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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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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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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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