Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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Remember to live.
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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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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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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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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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