We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe 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.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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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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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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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 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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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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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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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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