The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEAll that is transitory is but a metaphor.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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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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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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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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Everything transitory is but an image.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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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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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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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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