Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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Love is the funeral of hearts.
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People vote with their hearts, not their heads.
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Millions of Spaniards have Catalonia in their hearts.
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When people see you do alright, then you start winning their hearts. It's not going to come easy, though. It doesn't matter how many people you do right, you're still going to be hated by so many others. You can't live your life trying to make everybody happy.
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Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
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Whose hearts must I break? What lies must I maintain? - Through whose blood am I to wade ?
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When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.
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As useful as it may be, in the end, I don't think technology can ever fully express what people are feeling in their hearts.
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I believe in holding still. I believe that the secrets we hold in our hearts are our anchors, that even the unspoken between us is a measure of our every promise to the living and to the dead. And all our promises, like all our hopes, move us through life with the power of an ocean liner pushing through the sea.
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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.
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When pure sincerity forms within, it is outwardly realized in other people's hearts.
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True love doesn't consist of holding hands, it consists of holding hearts.
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Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
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God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts into one.
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Mud, raised by hurricanes, wells up in the noblest and purest of hearts.
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Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.
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For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.
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These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason.
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A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.
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I’ll tell you a secret. I’m not responsible for whether my students care or don’t care. That care has to come from them—not me.” “Where does that leave you?” “No matter what, Ari, my job is to care.” “Even when they don’t?” “Even when they don’t.” “No matter what?” “No matter what.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
