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!
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWe are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Every situation–nay, every moment–is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
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Remember to live.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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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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I love those who yearn for the impossible.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.
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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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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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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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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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And all must follow in my wake.
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