Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThe 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.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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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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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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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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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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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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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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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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