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Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.
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He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.
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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.
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Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.
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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.
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A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.
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Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.
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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
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A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
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The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.
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