There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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