Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Giving
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How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too?
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Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
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We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
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People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.
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In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.
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Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
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This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.
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An absent friend gives us friendly company when we are well assured of his happiness.
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Mastery is proven only in limitation, and law alone can give us freedom.
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Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.
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Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage
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Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.
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No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.
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There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
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Only law can give us freedom.
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One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.
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Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
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[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.
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For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
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Giving is the business of the rich.
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The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.
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New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.
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We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.
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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
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Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
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My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.
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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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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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