The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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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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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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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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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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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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Everything transitory is but an image.
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