He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe 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.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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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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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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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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