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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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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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Leap and the net will appear.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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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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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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