Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETwo souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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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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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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