There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEToo many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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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Remember to live.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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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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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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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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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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