Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
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If Switzerland were flat as a pancake, it would be larger than Prussia.
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If you inquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere!"
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If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat.
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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
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If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
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If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought and could be.
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If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do.
[Human Relations]
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If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
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If you would create something, you must be something.
[Character]
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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.
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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
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Ill-humor is but the inward feeling of our own want of merit; a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.
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In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
[Hope]
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In art the best is good enough.
[Art]
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In general, a man in his younger years does not easily cast off a certain complacent self-conceit, which principally shows itself in despising what he has himself been a little time before.
[Youth]
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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
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In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.
[Children]
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