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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.
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I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more intelligent one.
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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
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There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
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If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
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Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.
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Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]
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Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
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He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
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Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]
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You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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The summit charms us, the steps to it do not with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.
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No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
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All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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