~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes ~

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One ought each day at least to hear a little song read a good poem see a fine picture and if possible speak a few reasonable words.

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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it and then it will gradually yield to him.

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Every day look at a beautiful picture read a beautiful poem listen to some beautiful music and if possible say some reasonable thing.

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Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it and have not reached my goal.

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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.

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The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is indeed a species of sagacity-a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

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If any man wish to write in a clear style let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style let him first possess a noble soul.

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People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later before they are aware they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

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Austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the least of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

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That is the true season of love when we believe that we alone can love that no one could ever have loved so before us and that no one will love in the same way after us.

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Most people work the greater part of their time for a mere living; and the little freedom which remains to them so troubles them that they use every means of getting rid of it.

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We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out; only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

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A man should hear a little music read a little poetry and see a fine picture every day of his life in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

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Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native; your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else.

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There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance harsh and continuous may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.