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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI love those who yearn for the impossible.
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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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
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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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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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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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One 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.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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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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Remember to live.
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