Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOn top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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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.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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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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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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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