Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
German writer and poet
Lived from: 1749 - 1832
Category: Writers (Contemporary) | Poets (Contemporary) Country: 
Germany
Born: 28 august 1749 Died: 22 march 1832
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
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To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed. That can make life a garden.
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To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
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To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
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Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
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Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.
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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
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We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
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We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.
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We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
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We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
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We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
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