The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHENothing is more dangerous than solitude.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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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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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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