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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 Goethe

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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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Love Ourselves View Walk
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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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.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Happiness Himself Home Peace
A 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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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Children Heart Myself Sick
Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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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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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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Morning Myself Tears Wait
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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Business I Love You Myself
The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Intelligence Laughter Man
We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Danger Solitude
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Action Enough Willing
The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Ignorance Understand World
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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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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