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"Clever men are good, but they are not the best."
Thomas Carlyle / Goethe. Edinburgh Review, 1828.
Goethe. Edinburgh Review, 1828.
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"We are firm believers in the maxim that for all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad."
Thomas Carlyle / Goethe. Edinburgh Review, 1828.
Goethe. Edinburgh Review, 1828.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force; But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?"
Matthew Arnold / Memorial Verses.
Memorial Verses.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,-- He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers."
Goethe / Wilhelm Meister. Book ii. Chap. xiii.
Wilhelm Meister. Book ii. Chap. xiii.
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"Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves of laurel and myrtle and rose?"
Goethe / Wilhelm Meister. Book iii. Chap. i.
Wilhelm Meister. Book iii. Chap. i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient."
Goethe / Wilhelm Meister. Book vii. Chap. ix.
Wilhelm Meister. Book vii. Chap. ix.
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"The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception."
Goethe / Autobiography. Book xviii. Truth and Beauty.
Autobiography. Book xviii. Truth and Beauty.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain