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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOne ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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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 deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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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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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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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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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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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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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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