Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
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One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.
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Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.
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Es ist so gewiß als wunderbar, daß Wahrheit und Irrthum aus Einer Quelle entstehen; deßwegen man oft dem Irrthum nicht schaden darf, weil man zugleich der Wahrheit schadet.
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What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.
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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
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The rabble also vent their rage in words.
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Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!
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Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.
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Wer nichts wagt, gerwinnt nichts. Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen aß,Wer nie die kummervollen NächteAuf seinem Bette weinend saß,Der kennt euch nicht, ihr himmlischen Mächte.
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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
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It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.
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He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.
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One errs as long as one strives.
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Only the heart without a stain knows ease.
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Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
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Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love.
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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.
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Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.
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Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.
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If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.
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Wishes are premonitions of abilities.
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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.