Deserve Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

8 Deserve quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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When you crave a brief literary lens on merit, these eight Goethe verses offer a focused glimpse of his timeless thoughts. Though few, each line carries his poetic weight and philosophical nuance.

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I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing…

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For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl. [Ger., Denn ein wackerer Mann verdient ein begutertes Madchen.]

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He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

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Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act,…

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If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.

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He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear of…

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He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.

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For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.

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I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.

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All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter…

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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

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The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament

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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an…

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Our foibles are really what make us lovable.

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Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

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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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I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus…

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Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always…

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