Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes - page 14

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss. View quote
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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants. View quote
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A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise. View quote
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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming. View quote
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There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. View quote
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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this. View quote
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself. View quote
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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. View quote
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Love can do much, but duty more. View quote
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
To rule is easy, to govern difficult. View quote
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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. View quote
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We will burn that bridge when we come to it. View quote
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Girls we love for what they are men for what they promise to be. View quote
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Nowhere would anyone grant that science and poetry can be united. They forgot that science arose from poetry, and failed to see that a change of times might beneficently reunite the two as friends, at a higher level and to mutual advantage. View quote
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I am more and more convinced that poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere and at all times in hundreds and hundreds of men. ... I therefore like to look about me in foreign nations, and advise everyone to do the same. National literature is now a rather unmeaning term; the epoch of world literature is at hand, and everyone must strive to hasten its approach. View quote
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Do you wish to roam farther and farther? See the good that lies so near. Just learn how to capture your luck, for your luck is always there. View quote
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I sing as the bird sings That lives in the boughs. View quote
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Nothing venture, nothing gain. Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers. View quote
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All Nine often used to come to me, I mean the Muses: But I ignored them: my girl was in my arms. Now I've left my sweetheart: and they've left me, And I roll my eyes, seeking a knife or rope. But Heaven is full of gods: You came to aid me: Greetings, Boredom, mother of the Muse. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Much there is I can stand. Most things not easy to suffer I bear with quiet resolve, just as a God commands it. Only a few things I find as repugnant as snakes and poison. These four: tobacco smoke, bedbugs and garlic and Christ. View quote
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Age does not make us childish, as they say. It only finds us true children still. View quote
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The message well I hear, my faith alone is weak. View quote
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Fair I was also, and that was my ruin. View quote
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