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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEDaring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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 highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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