Loses Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

10 Loses quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe’s ten lines contemplate defeat with a poetic elegance that still feels fresh. The brevity makes each observation a compact gem of his timeless wisdom.

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A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.

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The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.

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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.

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One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.

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Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is; and old men lose one of the most precious…

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There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull…

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Yes, my love, who soever lives, loses, . . . but he also wins. [Ger., Ja, meine Liebe, wer lebt, verliebt . . . aber er gewinnt auch.]

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The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.

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You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

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Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or…

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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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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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