He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWho is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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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 more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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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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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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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