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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Inspirational Quotes (1015)

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The suffering may be moral or physical and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
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If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
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Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.
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Willing is not enough, we must do.
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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
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The present moment is a powerful goddess.
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Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
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A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
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The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.
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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
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Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.
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Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]
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If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go to the Poet's home.
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Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.
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Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
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Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
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I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it
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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
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