Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I am the Spirit that denies.
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Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look round.
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Yes, my love, who soever lives, loses, . . . but he also wins.
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Words are mere sound and smoke, dimming the heavenly light.
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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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Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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Those who make use of devotion as a means and end generally are hypocrites.
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It is delivery that makes the orators success.
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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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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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Getting along with women, Knocking around with men, Having more credit than money, Thus one goes through the world.
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A thinking man's greatest happiness is to have fathomed what can be fathomed and to revere in silence what cannot be fathomed.
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The most congenial social occasions are those ruled by cheerful deference of each for all.
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Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.
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Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
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Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.
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Man darf nur alt werden, um milder zu sein; ich sehe keinen Fehler begehen, den ich nicht auch begangen hätte.
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Wenn mancher sich nicht verpflichtet fühlte, das Unwahre zu wiederholen, weil er’s einmal gefügt hat, fo wären es ganz andere Leute geworden.
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Let the noble man Be generous and good, Tirelessly achieving What is just and useful: Let him be a model For those beings whom he surmises.
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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.
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The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.
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Zwey Seelen wohnen, ach! in meiner Brust.