Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
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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.
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Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
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There is strong shadow where there is much light.
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At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.
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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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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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On all the peaks lies peace.
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Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to thee.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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No limit, no definition, may restrict the range or depth of the human spirit's passage into its own secrets or the world's.
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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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Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null.
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The people rate strength before everything.
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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
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My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree.
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A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
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The follies of the wise man are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
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Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.
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We are not all equal, nor can we be so.
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Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.
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Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.