For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBe above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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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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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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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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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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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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