We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEKnow thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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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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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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