The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETreat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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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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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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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.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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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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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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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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