And all must follow in my wake.
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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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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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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Leap and the net will appear.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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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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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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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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