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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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