Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETo think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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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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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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