Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe 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.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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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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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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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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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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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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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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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