There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHELove does not dominate; it cultivates.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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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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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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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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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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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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