As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEMisunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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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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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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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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