Only air and light and the love of friends! Let no man lose heart who still has these.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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- Grant me one hour on love’s most sacred shoresTo clasp the bosom that my soul adores,Lie heart to heart and merge my soul with yours. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone! – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Colors are light’s suffering and joy – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- There is strong shadow where there is much light. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart. – 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
- Each one sees what he carries in his heart. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Solitude is precious balm to my heart in these paradistic parts. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness? – 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
- Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- A clever man commits no minor blunders. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- If the whole world I once could seeOn free soil stand, with the people freeThen to the moment might I say,Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- For in music there is no material to be deducted. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The limits of my language are the limits of my universe. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- We are all pilgrims who seek Italy. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Once we are lost unto ourselves, everything else is lost to us. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- By Fortune’s adverse buffets overborneTo solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn,And not in utter loneliness to live,Myself at last did to the Devil give! – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Legislators and revolutionaries who promise equality and liberty at the same time, are either psychopaths or mountebanks. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us mastery over ourselves is destructive. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- In all things it is better to hope than to despair. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Divide and rule, the politician cries;Unite and lead, is watchword of the wise. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- It’s in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold,My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe