I wait for the morning of my tears.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI 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.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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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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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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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