Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHELove does not dominate; it cultivates.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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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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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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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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