Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve 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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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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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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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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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