I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETreat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Remember to live.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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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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