To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEAll that is transitory is but a metaphor.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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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 word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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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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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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