A person hears only what they understand.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEInstruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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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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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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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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