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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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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
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Wishes are premonitions of abilities.
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None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
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People always fancy that we must become old to become wise but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.
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Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]
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Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.
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Action has magic, grace and power in it.
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