Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEHe is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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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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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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Everything transitory is but an image.
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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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Leap and the net will appear.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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