Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA person hears only what they understand.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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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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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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