In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world, how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEI laugh at my heart, and do its will.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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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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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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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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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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