On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI wait for the morning of my tears.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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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.
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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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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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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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Everything transitory is but an image.
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