To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf 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.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Remember to live.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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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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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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