Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEInstruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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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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