I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEvery 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.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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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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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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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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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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