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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEvery 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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Leap and the net will appear.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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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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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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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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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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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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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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