Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
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Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.
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One must be something to be able to do something.
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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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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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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 man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.
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The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.
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For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.
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You are, when all is done-just what you are.
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People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.
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Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte.
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Ein unnütz Leben ist ein früher Tod...
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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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Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
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You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.
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When you see some evil you proceed to immediate action, you make an immediate attack to cure the symptom.
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The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
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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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Once a man's thirty, he's already old,He is indeed as good as dead.It's best to kill him right away.
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For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
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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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The dangers of life are infinite, and among them is safety.