Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.
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Energy will do anything that can be done in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
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The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.
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Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.
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Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
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Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.
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He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.
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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
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To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
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To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character; and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.
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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
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Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.
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The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
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There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.
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Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.
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Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
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Mastery is often taken for egotism.
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.
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The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.