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 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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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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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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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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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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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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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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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