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Little Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested…
- We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
- Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
- Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then;…
- Come my little one, and give me your hand.
- Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what…
- We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
- The little man is still a man.
- Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
- With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery.
- With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails.
- Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible…
- We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
- Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
- Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
- [W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.
- 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…
- The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom…
- Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show……
- The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.
- If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much
- He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
- One ought, every day at least,to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture,and, if it were possible, to speak a…
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