What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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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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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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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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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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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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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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