Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEHe who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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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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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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