Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOn top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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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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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
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Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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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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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though ’twere his own.
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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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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