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A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-latern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
By Johann von Goethe
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
By Johann von Goethe
It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish.
By Johann von Goethe
To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.
By Johann von Goethe
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed
By Johann von Goethe
If your treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
By Johann von Goethe
Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power and fame.
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God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
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The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before.
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There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From it springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
By Johann von Goethe
Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.
By Johann von Goethe
Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
By Johann von Goethe
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
By Johann von Goethe
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
By Johann von Goethe
Whenever I hear people talking about 'liberal ideas,' I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
By Johann von Goethe
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
By Johann von Goethe