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Love Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

196 Love quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe sees love as the spirit’s wings that lift us toward impossible dreams. He links love with deep understanding, saying we truly grasp anything we love. He also notes that love can bring both joy and misery, making it a powerful, double‑edged force.

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Sing it not in mournful numbers.

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Love can do much, but duty more.

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Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.

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The threshold is the place of expectation.

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We are our own aptest deceiver.

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Do thine own task, and be therewith content.

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He who can not learn to love must flatter.

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Classicism is health, romanticism is sickness

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The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

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If you live criticizing people, you won't have time to love them.

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What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!

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The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.

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How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!

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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

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Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

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“Here the old man said with a smile: 'Love does not rule, but it trains, and that is more.”

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Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe…

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We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the…

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True love is love that stays constant for ever, whatever it's fortune; whether requited or scored, filled or sent empty away.

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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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It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.

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The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged…

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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…

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“Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it…

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Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in…

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Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so…

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I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner…

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We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness,…

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I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that…

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A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after…

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Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass…

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Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can't…

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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…

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Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with…

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“Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when heated and exhausted by a…

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“When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains,…

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“And when I look around the apartment where I now am,—when I see Charlotte’s apparel lying before me, and Albert’s writings, and…

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“O my Charlotte, the sacred, tender remembrance! Gracious Heaven! restore to me the happy moment of our first acquaintance. I smile at…

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Nature is the living, visible garment of God.

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Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

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Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

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Giving is the business of the rich.

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Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!

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