By seeking and blundering we learn.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEYou can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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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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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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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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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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