The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEOblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection–which we have ourselves created.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it’s alive; then they have the parts and they’ve lost the whole, for the link that’s missing was the living soul.
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Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow.
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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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I laugh at my heart, and do its will.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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In the colorful reflection we have what is life.
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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
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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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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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