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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEFor a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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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And all must follow in my wake.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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 think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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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 are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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