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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes

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It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) The old saying is expressed with depth and significance: On the pinnacle of fortune man does not long stand firm  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) That which history can give us best is the enthusiasm which it raises in our hearts  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) The best thing which we derive from history is the enthusiasm that it raises in us  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) A wife is a gift bestowed upon man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Enjoy what thou hast inherited from thy sires if thou wouldst possess it; what we employ not is an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Shakespeare is a great psychologist, and whatever can be known of the heart of man may be found in his plays  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) If you have any faith, give me, for heaven’s sake, a share of it! Your doubts you may keep to yourself, for I have a plenty of my own  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) With little wit and ease to suit them, they whirl in narrow circling trails, like kittens playing with their tails  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) A mind, once formed, is never suited after, one yet in growth will ever grateful be  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) I put no account on him who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Those only who know little, can be said to know anything. The greater the knowledge the greater the doubt  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Music, in the best sense, does not require novelty; nay, the older it is, and the more we are accustomed to it, the greater its effect  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value; for it is the representative of eternity  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes) Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past  (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes)
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