Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
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Nichts ist höher schätzen als der Werth des Tages.
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Is it so big a mystery what god and man and world are? No! but nobody knows how to solve it so the mystery hangs on.
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Der umgang mit frauen ist das element guter sitten.
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Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.
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When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived as a straight line before it is ever drawn with pencil and paper...the fountain of all thought has been opened to him...the philosopher can reveal him nothing new, as a geometrician he has discovered the basis of all thought.
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Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
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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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You are, when all is done-just what you are.
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Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.
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Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.
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These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.
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I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.
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Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
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Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
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Much there is I can stand, and most things not easy to suffer I bear with quiet resolve, just as a god commands it. Only a few I find as repugnant as snakes and poison - These four: tobacco smoke, bedbugs, garlic, and †.
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Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.
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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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Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education.
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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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The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.
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The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.