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Letter "J" » Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
«You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
accuse, accuses, accusing, affections, blame, consistent, looking for, The Accused, wavered, wavering, wavers
«Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
connected, gambling, hoped-for, hoped, more or less, traveling
«We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
accustomed, deride, derided, derides, snarl, snarling, snarls, sympathies
«Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
blossom, blossoming, branched, branches, branch out, fate, fruit, fruit tree, fruit trees, green, greener, greens, resembled, resembles, The Blossoms, the Fates, The greens, Tree, tree branch, turn, winter, wintered, winters
«Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates his thoughts with those of the author»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Books,
Mind,
Reading
| Keywords:
author, mind reading, reader, reads, The Author, the book
«Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Mystery
| Keywords:
mysteries
«A wife is a gift bestowed upon man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bestowed, loss, paradise, reconcile, reconciles, reconciling
«Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.»
«Everything great and intelligent is in the minority»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Greatness,
Intelligence,
Minority
| Keywords:
minority
«Life is the childhood of our immortality.»
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