All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDifficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Remember to live.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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Every 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.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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