Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.
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All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.
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On all the peaks lies peace.
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There is no patriotic art.
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Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.
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One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.
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Let us live, while we are alive!
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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
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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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Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.
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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
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Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
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Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.
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One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.
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If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
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Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.
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Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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The present is a powerful deity.
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To every one Nature appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
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Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action.
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings.
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If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!