The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEEvery reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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I wait for the morning of my tears.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
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The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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