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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

«A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.»
«The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.»
«It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.»
«Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic»
«Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being»
«Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality»
«A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.»
«The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.»
«Yes! To this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.»
«A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form»