Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA person hears only what they understand.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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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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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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