He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
¶ (Attributed)
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, statesman, scientist
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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We each have only enough strength to complete those assignments that we are fully convinced are important.
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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.
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Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
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One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.
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The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
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If you assign people duties without granting them any rights, you must pay them well.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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Rest not! Life is sweeping by;
Go and dare before you die.
Something mighty and sublime
Leave behind to conquer time.
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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
¶ (Attributed)
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
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Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.
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If any man wishes 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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Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine.
¶ (Attributed)
The words you've bandied are sufficient;
'Tis deeds that I prefer to see.
[Der Worte sind genug gewechselt,
Lasst mich auch endlich Thaten sehn.]
¶ Faust, "Vorspiel auf dem Theater," l.214 (trans. Bayard Taylor) (1808)
Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.
[Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]
¶ Gotz von Berlichingen, I, 24 (1773)
Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.
[Zu strenge Ford'rung ist verborgner Stolz.]
¶ Iphigenia auf Tauris, IV, iv, 120 (1787)
He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.
[Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.]
¶ Kunst und Alterthum (1824)
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
[Eigentlich weiss man nur wenn man wenig weiss; mit dem Wissen wachst des Zweifel.]
¶ Spruche in Prosa
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
[Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine tätige Unwissenheit.]
¶ Spruche in Prosa
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Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.
¶ Spruche in Prosa
There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste.
[Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]
¶ Spruche in Prosa, III
What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.
[Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige, die uns lehrt, uns selbst zu regieren.]
¶ Spruche in Prosa, III, 225
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Divide and command, a wise maxim;
Unite and guide, a better.
[Entzwei' und gebiete! Tuchtig Wort,
Verein' und leite! Bess'rer Hort.]
¶ Spruche in Reimen, l. 516
To a valet no man is a hero.
[Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]
¶ Wahlverwandtschaften, II, 5, Aus Ottilien's Tagebuche (1805)
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.
¶ Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship, bk. V, ch. 1 (Serlo) (1794)
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