The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEInstruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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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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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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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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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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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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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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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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