What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEKnowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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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 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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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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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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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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