Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
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I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
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To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities.
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Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
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One lives but once in the world.
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What man does not know, Or has not thought of, Wanders in the night Through the labyrinth of the mind.
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There are people who pay attention to the weaknesses of their friends; that is to no avail. I have always closely watched and profited from the strengths of my adversaries.
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A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.
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I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
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Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
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An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.
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Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.
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With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails.
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And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.
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This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
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A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
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Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion.
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The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
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I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.
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Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
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There is nothing new on earth For a person who lives long and experiences much. In my years of youthful wandering I have seen crystallized people.