Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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My father writings stuff was always his personal stuff, like about the day we had to put our dog down, or finding old photographs of his father, or passing a guy he went to boarding school with on a street in New York. Very specific, detailed, descriptive columns that he wrote. I think in a way, it could be argued that my best songs are that way too. They're almost journalistic in that they're very clear, and very specific, and they describe things.
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The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.
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The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
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Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
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You all know that even when women have full rights, they still remain fatally downtrodden because all housework is left to them. In most cases housework is the most unproductive, the most barbarous and the most arduous work a woman can do. It is exceptionally petty and does not include anything that would in any way promote the development of the woman.
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I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones.
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In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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There are no good-byes, where ever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.
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O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.
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I don't like jeans with holes in 'em. I like 'em faded.
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Doing something extraordinarily good is very hard to do and you could fail. Extraordinarily bad is easy to do - it's much easier to burn down a building than to build one.
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Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.
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I want to point out that I never been a member of Swedish Democrats. That is a factual error, whereas mine was an error more serious than that.
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One cannot but mistrust a prospect of felicity: one must enjoy it before one can believe in it.
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He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.
