Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes - Page 39

• What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passing, Dare, Torment

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.54, e-artnow

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• How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Blood, Uncertain

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• Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last drops of midnight oil. On books and papers as I read, My friend, your mournful light you shed. If only I could flee this den And walk the mountain-tops again, Through moonlit meadows make my way, In mountain caves with spirits play - Released from learning's musty cell, Your healing dew would make me well!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sweet, Book, Healing

  "The Essential Goethe".

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• Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Weakness, Lovable, Foibles

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• For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Bears, Reputation, Strolling

  "Hermann and Dorothea". Poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, VII. 93, October 1797.

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• No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sacred, Insult, Submit

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Torquato Tasso, III. 3. 191, 1922.

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• I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

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  Climate, Elements, Conclusion

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• And future deeds crowded round us as the countless stars in the night.
  [Ger., Und kunftige Thaten drangen wie die Sterne
  Rings um uns her unzahlig aus der Nacht.]

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  Stars, Night, Deeds

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• Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mean, Advice, Accepting

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• One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Doe, Oneself, Knows

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• What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Age, Desire, Youth

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• Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Strive

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David Luke (1998). “Faust”, p.11, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Desire, Fulfillment, Languish

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1976). “Faust: a tragedy : backgrounds and sources, the author on the drama, contemporary reactions, modern criticism”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Modern poets mix too much water with their ink.
  [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Water, Ink, Too Much

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• All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Useless, Handicapped

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1989). “Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims of Goethe”, Richard West

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• I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.

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  Heart, Unrequited Love, Cherish

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “The Poems of Goethe”, p.285

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• A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Attention, Chance

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• Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes refuge in the strangest nooks and corners, and then suddenly comes forth again, as soon as it believes itself at all safe.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Believe, Humanity, Fancy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.56, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Missing, Habit, Trifling

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.726, Delphi Classics

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• [Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.

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  Love, Together, Crowns

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• The experiences show us just as we are; they make us see our own defects.

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  Shows, Defects

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• If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.

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  Art, People, World

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• My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Fate, Joy, Hereafter

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.16, e-artnow

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• I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Children, Steps, Amazed

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.27, e-artnow

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• It is with art as with love: How can a man of the world,with all his distractions, keep the inwardness which an artist must possess if he hopes to attain perfection? That inwardness which the spectator must share if he is to understand the work as the artist wishes and hopes... Believe me, talents are like virtues; either you must love them for their own sake or renounce them altogether. And they are only recognized and rewarded when we have practised them in secret, like a dangerous mystery."

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  Art, Believe, Men

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