Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.
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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
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But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
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An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.
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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
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If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
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Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.
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Create, artist, do not talk.
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I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
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What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the trees. Now the eye at once gleams brightly, See! the infant band with mirth Moves and dances nimbly, lightly, As the morning gave it birth, Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.
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The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.
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Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
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What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
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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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Nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.
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We must be young to do great things.
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You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.
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True happiness springs from moderation.
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I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
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Power is neither male nor female.
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The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.