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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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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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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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