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Music is the key to the female heart.
JOHANN G. SEUME
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
We are shaped and fashioned by what whom we love.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unp...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.
JOHANN JOACHIM WINCKELMANN
Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN
Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, a...
JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Before you can do something you must first be something.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do th...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnes...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
JOHANN G. FICHTE
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A useless life is an early death.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty.
JOHANN JOACHIM WINCKELMANN
If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of sol...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that u...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerful...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reac...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the m...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN
My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the...
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his fail...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
JOHANN VON GOETHE