Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
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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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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
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True happiness springs from moderation.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
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I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
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We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.
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For the nature of a women is closely allied to art.
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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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The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
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The world remains ever the same.
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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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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
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Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.
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A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time.
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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.
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The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.
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I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.
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If only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.
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Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.