Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with...

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with...

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect...

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect...

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

On all the peaks lies peace.

On all the peaks lies peace.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the...

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the...

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than...

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than...

Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help...

Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help...

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

When two people are really happy about one another, one can generally assume that they...

When two people are really happy about one another, one can generally assume that they...

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and...

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and...

Stupidity is without anxiety.

Stupidity is without anxiety.

The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon...

The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon...

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them...

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them...

We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself

We can really respect a man only if he doesn't always look out for himself

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be...

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be...