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He learned as readily as other men breathe. Of all the men of this time, not one has seemed so much at home in it as he. He was not afraid to live. Academy of American Poets Educator Newsletter. Teach This Poem.
Follow Us. Find Poets. Poetry Near You. Jobs for Poets. Read Stanza. Privacy Policy. Press Center. First Book Award. James Laughlin Award. Ambroggio Prize. Dear Poet Project. There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior. This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us. It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed. The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross. In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth. If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own. Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator. If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One always has time enough, if one will apply it well. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Superstition is the poetry of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing is worth more than this day. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We will burn that bridge when we come to it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What is my life if I am no longer useful to others. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When ideas fail, words come in very handy. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Who is the most sensible person? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The artist alone sees spirits. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Character develops itself in the stream of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe An unused life is an early death. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Common sense is the genius of humanity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. After growing up in a privileged upper middle class family, he studied law in Leipzig from to , although he was more interested in literature.
As he was seriously ill, he had to interrupt his studies, but finally graduated in Strassburg with a degree in law.
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