He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEThere is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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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 wait for the morning of my tears.
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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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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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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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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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What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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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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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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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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