I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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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Remember to live.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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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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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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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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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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