"Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought."

Hill, Napoleon on education
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"The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on adversity
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"We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on age and aging
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"We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on deception
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"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on dream
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"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on emotions
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"Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on eternity
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"If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on forgiveness
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"One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on agreement
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"He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on home
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"One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on humility
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"Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ignorance
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"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on importance
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"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on kindness
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"The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on knowledge
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"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on laughter
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"Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on learning
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"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on life
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"There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on life
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"Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on life
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"Life is the childhood of our immortality."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on life
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"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on love
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"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on love
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"That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on love
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"The little man is still a man."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on men
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"Out of moderation a pure happiness springs."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on moderation   

"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on money
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"Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on motivation
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"The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on music
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"Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on nature   

"No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?"

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on opinions   

"If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on performance   

"We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on perseverance   

"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on potential
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"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on present
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"We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on present
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"A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on proverbs   

"What is my life if I am no longer useful to others."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on purpose
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"Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on quotations
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