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.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhen 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.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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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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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.
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Two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.
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Love does not dominate; it cultivates.
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Leap and the net will appear.
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