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The experiences show us just as we are they make us see our own defects.
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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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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.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
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The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.
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Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
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Age does not make us childish, as some say it finds us true children.
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He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.
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To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.
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Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education
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The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
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Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.
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Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
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Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
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To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.
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If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.
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Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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