One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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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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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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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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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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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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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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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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Doubt can only be removed by action.
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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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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Remember to live.
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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 are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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