Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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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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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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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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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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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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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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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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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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