Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHETo be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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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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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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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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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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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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