For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."

(Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)

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school education instruction learning encouragement

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All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be valuable to instruct ourselves in; we must deduce the lesson on our own, just as with life.

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What is Classical is healthy; what is Romantic is sick.

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