Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEToo many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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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 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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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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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.
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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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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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