Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHELife belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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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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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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