Spring Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

11 Spring quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Goethe watches the season’s transformation with a thoughtful eye. These eleven brief reflections blend his classical sensibility with the fresh energy of spring, offering a succinct taste of his poetic depth.

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Our virtues and view spring from one root.

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True happiness springs from moderation.

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Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

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True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

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True happiness springs from moderation. [Ger., Aus Massigkeit entspringt ein reines Gluck.]

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So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter.…

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Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough…

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What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the…

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Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in…

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This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers…

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The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others,…

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

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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

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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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