Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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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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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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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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