If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and c…

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

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