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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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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Acceptance Deep Myself Worst
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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Institution Mad Mental Ourselves
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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Evil Greatness Himself Sick
Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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Forever Moments Worth
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Action Ignorance Scare
Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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Believe Inspirational Magic Yourself
There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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Children Parents Wings
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Inspirational Result Start
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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Character Himself Transformation
Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Danger Solitude
One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Oneself Travel
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Independent Life Trust Yourself
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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Choice Deep World
A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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Heart Word
I wait for the morning of my tears.
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Morning Myself Tears Wait
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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Happiness Joy Man Value
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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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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Empty Feeling Garden Nature Spirit Thinking World
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Happiness Himself Home Peace
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Purpose Slave World Yourself
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Hands Himself Live
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Achievement Important
To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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Limitation Oneself
Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Deep Philosophy Soul
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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Act Easy Philosophy Thinking
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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