By seeking and blundering we learn.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEvery day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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And all must follow in my wake.
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We 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.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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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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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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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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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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