Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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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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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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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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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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