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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Inspirational Quotes (1015)

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Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
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Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.
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There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames action animates, but narrows.
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The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.
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The finished man, you know, is difficult to please a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
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If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
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The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
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The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.
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Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
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For the nature of women is closely allied to art
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I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
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What is fruitful alone is true.
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What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.
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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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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
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The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.
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No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
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Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot that it is securely founded that it be successfully executed.
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There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them
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