Few people have the imagination for reality.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him 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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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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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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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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