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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Showing: 81 - 90 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes of 208
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.
All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.
Where do we now meet an original nature? and where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
On all the peaks lies peace.
Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly.
If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men.
Friendship Quote
Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you're really strangers.
Wisdom Quote
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
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