Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEIf I love you, what business is it of yours?
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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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Leap and the net will appear.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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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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