He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEA word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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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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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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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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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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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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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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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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To be loved for what one is, that is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him; their own selves, their version of him.
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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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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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