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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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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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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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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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 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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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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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.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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