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.
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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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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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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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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We usually lost today because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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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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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!
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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