On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEFew people have the imagination for reality.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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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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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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We know accurately only when we know little; doubt grows with knowledge.
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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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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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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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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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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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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.
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