There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEBeauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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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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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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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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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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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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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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