None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Leap and the net will appear.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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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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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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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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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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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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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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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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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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