Few people have the imagination for reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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Remember to live.
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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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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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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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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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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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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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