Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEHe is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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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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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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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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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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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