A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Remember to live.
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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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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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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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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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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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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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