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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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Children Parents Wings
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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Beautiful God Human Life Man Music Photograph Poetry Reading Soul
Doubt can only be removed by action.
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Action Doubt
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Achievement Greatness Himself Man
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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Destroy Mad Man Moral Opinion Suffering
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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Himself Man Noble Philosophy Soul Writing
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Ideal Love Marriage Reality
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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Feeling Herself Myself Philosophy
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Ignorance Understand World
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Hands Himself Live
Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Deep Philosophy Soul
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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Ability Character People
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Greatness Happiness Talent
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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Creation Happiness Himself Ideal Kind Ourselves Perfection Quality
How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Heart Myself See
I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Heart Myself Philosophy Presence Soul

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