The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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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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