Doubt can only be removed by action.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOn top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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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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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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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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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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