Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
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Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
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He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
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Method will teach you to win time.
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Do thine own task, and be therewith content.
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There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others.
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If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word.
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After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.
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Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.
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Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
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Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.
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A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.
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No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.
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Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.
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Children, love one another, and if that is not possible-at least try to put up with one another.
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If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
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I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.
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There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
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It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
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What then is your duty? What the day demands.
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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.