Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 35

• We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.

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  Life, Flower, Yield

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• Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

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  Wish, Age, Youth

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• Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.

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  Motivational, Fitness, Health

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• Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.

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  Character, Men, Follow Through

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• Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.
  [Ger., Die Gaben
  Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.]

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  Peculiar, Form, Providence

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• We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

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  Proud, Merit, Blame

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• The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.

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  Kings, Home, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Charles E. Passage (1980). “Goethe's plays”, Frederick Ungar

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• Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.

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  Two, Giving, Receiving

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• Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

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  Aristocracy, Nobility, Piety

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.82, Ravenio Books

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• True happiness springs from moderation.
  [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]

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  Spring, True Happiness, Moderation

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• The day of fortune is like a harvest day,
  We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
  [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte,
  Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]

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  Men, Corn, Tag

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• Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

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  Teacher, Silence, Lessons

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• He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

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  Art, Science, Religion

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• A useless life is an early death.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Act 1, Scene 2, 1786.

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• Plunge boldly into the thick of life!

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  Adventure, Seize The Day, Plunge

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• Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.

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  Love, Mean, Advantage

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.771, Delphi Classics

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• But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself.

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  Art, Limits, Oneself

  "Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann".

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• For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

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  Ideas, Literature, Failing

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• What is now the foliage moving?
  Air is still, and hush'd the breeze,
  Sultriness, this fullness loving,
  Through the thicket, from the trees.
  Now the eye at once gleams brightly,
  See! the infant band with mirth
  Moves and dances nimbly, lightly,
  As the morning gave it birth,
  Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.

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  Morning, Spring, Moving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “May”

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• A lot of people do not care about your money until nearly penniless. They also do so with time

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  People, Care

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• When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

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  Happiness, Two, People

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• Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.

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  Perseverance, Silent, Grows

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• Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.

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  Life, Mean, Nurse

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.80, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

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  Memories, Heart, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David E. Wellbery (1988). “The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella”, p.59, Princeton University Press

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• I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it

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  Art, Long, Mind

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