Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.
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The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!
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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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Create, artist, do not talk.
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True happiness springs from moderation.
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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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Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.
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What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
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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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Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
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A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
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For the nature of a women is closely allied to art.
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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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I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
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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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Every solution of a problem is a new problem.
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The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
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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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If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you.
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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
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What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.