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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEAll that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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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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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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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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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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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A person hears only what they understand.
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