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Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 161-200
161 All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
162 First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
163 He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
164 What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
165 We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.
166 Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
167 Science arose from poetry, when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
168 Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
169 Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
170 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.
171 Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
172 Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
173 Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
174 Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
175 What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
176 To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
177 The unnatural, that too is natural.
178 For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
179 Character develops itself in the stream of life.
180 Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
181 We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
182 There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
183 We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
184 In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.
185 It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
186 The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
187 If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
188 I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
189 He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
190 The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
191 The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
192 Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
193 I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
194 Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
195 Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
196 I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
197 Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
198 An unused life is an early death.
199 If your treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
200 Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.
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