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Beautiful Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education
- Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
- We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies
- When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble,…
- Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.
- The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
- Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
- The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially…
- If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!
- As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
- Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
- A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly…
- I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light…
- if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.
- The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament
- We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the…
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- The worse my drawings were, the more beautiful did the originals appear. — John James Audubon
- I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of… — Saint Augustine
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