If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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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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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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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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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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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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.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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