I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEFew people have the imagination for reality.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and – if at all possible – speak a few sensible words.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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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 intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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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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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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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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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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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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