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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
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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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If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
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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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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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