A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOne never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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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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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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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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 is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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