Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life."
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"Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I think of you when upon the sea the sun flings her beams. I think of you when the moonlight shines in silvery streams. I see you when upon the distant hills the dust awakes; At night when on a fragile bridge the traveler quakes. I hear you when the blows rise on high, with murmur deep. To tread the silent grove where wander I, When all's asleep."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"I think of you when upon the sea the sun flings her beams. I think of you when the moonlight shines in silvery streams. I see you when upon the distant hills the dust awakes;At night when on a fragile bridge the traveler quakes. I hear you when the billows rise on high,With murmur deep. To tread the silent grove where wander I,When all's asleep."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Each one sees what he carries in his heart."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Du hast so viele Leben, wie du Sprachen sprichst. (You have as many lives as the number of languages you speak.)"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"All force strives forward to work far and wide To live and grow and ever to expand;Yet we are checked and thwarted on each side By the world's flux and swept along like sand:In this internal storm and outward tide We hear a promise, hard to understand:From the compulsion that all creatures binds,Who overcomes himself, his freedom finds."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"We are all pilgrims who seek Italy."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Whilst I could not think of any man whose spirit was, or needed to be, more enlarged than the spirit of a genuine merchant. What a thing it is to see the order which prevails throughout his business! By means of this he can at any time survey the general whole, without needing to perplex himself in the details. What advantages does he derive from the system of book-keeping by double entry? It is among the finest inventions of the human mind; every prudent master of a house should introduce it into his economy."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"βOne 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.β"
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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