There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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And all must follow in my wake.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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