He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEFew people have the imagination for reality.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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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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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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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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