Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEFew people have the imagination for reality.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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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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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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