Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf I love you, what business is it of yours?
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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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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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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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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