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 GOETHEHe who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Leap and the net will appear.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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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 do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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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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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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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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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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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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If you’ve never eaten while crying you don’t know what life tastes like.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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