Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.
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Mehr Licht!
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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte.
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Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
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The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.
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Die Welt ist so leer, wenn man nur Berge, Flüsse und Städte darin denkt, aber hie und da jemand zu wissen, der mit uns übereinstimmt, mit dem wir auch stillschweigend fortleben, das macht uns dieses Erdenrund erst zu einem bewohnten Garten.
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It is delivery that makes the orators success.
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I am the Spirit that denies.
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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
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O'er all the hilltopsIs quiet now,In all the treetopsHearest thouHardly a breath;The birds are asleep in the trees:Wait; soon like theseThou too shalt rest.
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The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.
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Meine Ruh' ist hin,Mein Herz ist schwer.
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One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.
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One must be something to be able to do something.
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There is no outward sign of true courtesy that does not rest on a deep moral foundation.
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Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.
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All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.
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Der umgang mit frauen ist das element guter sitten.
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To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.
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Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
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In limitations he first shows himself the master,And the law can only bring us freedom.