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Good Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Profoundness, genius, spontaneity, merit, nobility, ingenuity, voice propriety, feeling, discernment, sensibility, good taste, great tone, rightness, courtliness, vivacity, boldness, style, freshness, harmony, perfection, imagination, purity,…
- If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.
- What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
- Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is…
- Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most…
- To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
- It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
- Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.
- Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best…
- 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
- Where there are no women there are no good manners
- He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate…
- I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the…
- The worst is that the very hardest thinking will not bring thoughts. They must come like good children of God and cry, "Here we are."…
- Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
- Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought…
- Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.
- Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
- As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.
- Words are good, but there is something better. The best is not to be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the…
- The society of women is the element of good manners.
- Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.
- Noble be man, helpful and good!
- Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
- The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
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