There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEFor a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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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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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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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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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