Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.
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Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition.
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Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
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Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
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We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
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There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
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Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.
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When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.
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Limitation of aims is the mother of wisdom and the secret of achievement.
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To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
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There is but one poetry-true poetry.
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Every second is of infinite value.
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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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Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
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The smallest hair throws its shadow.
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If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.
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And we went our separate ways without having understood each other. As in this world nobody understands the other easily.
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There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it.
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No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
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Manners form the great charm of women.
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All things are only transitory.
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It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.
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Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.
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Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.