By seeking and blundering we learn.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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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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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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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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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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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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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