You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEHe who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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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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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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 word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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