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All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.
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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.
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One needs only to get old to become milder; I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.
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I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Patriotism ruins history.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Nur der verdient sich Freiheit wie das LebenDer täglich sie erobern muß.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Time itself is an element.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Tränenreiche Männer sind gut. Verlasse mich jeder, der trocknen Herzens, trockner Augen ist!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The eternal feminine draws us on high.
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Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Es gibt Fälle, ... wo jeder Trost niederträchtig und Verzweiflung Pflicht ist.
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A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Theories usually result from the precipitate reasoning of an impatient mind which would like to be rid of phenomena and replaces them with images, concepts, indeed often with mere words.
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Knowst thou the land where the lemon trees bloom,Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom,Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows,And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Colour itself is a degree of darkness.
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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise, we harden.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe