Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on literary, political, Christian views, and philosophical thought in the Western world from the late 18th century to the present. A poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre-director, and critic, Goethe wrote a wide range of works, including plays, poetry and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, …
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
In art the best is good enough.
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It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
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 words.
I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
An unused life is an early death.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
A useless life is an early death.