Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEYou can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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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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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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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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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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