Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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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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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Who 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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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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