Doubt can only be removed by action.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf 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.
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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Remember to live.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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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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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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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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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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