Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.
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Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.
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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
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Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
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We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.
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Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.
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It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
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A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
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So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say; yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.
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To have more, you must first be more.
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Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.
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He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.
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He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.
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It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
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It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
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He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.
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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.