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1 " There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. "
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2 " On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold,My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold. "
3 " My father, my father, and dost thou not hearThe words that the Erl-King now breathes in mine ear?'Be calm, dearest child, 'tis thy fancy deceives;Tis the sad wind that sighs through the withering leaves. "
4 " Unqualified activity, of whatever kind, leads at last to bankruptcy. "
5 " It is much easier to die than to bear a life of misery with fortitude. "
6 " Snow is false purity. "
7 " Men get out of countenance with themselves and others because they treat the means as the end, and so, from sheer doing, do nothing, or, perhaps, just what they would have avoided. "
8 " einen offenen, treuherzigen Menschen. "
9 " This version of “Meister,” with whatever faults it may have, "
10 " The spectators were expressing their sympathy in various ways, when, the officers of law having finished their ceremonial, the cart went on; and Wilhelm, who took a deep interest in the fate of the lovers, hastened forward by a foot path to get some acquaintance with the Amtmann before the procession should arrive. "
11 " So lived these two fathers, often meeting to take counsel about their common concerns. On the day we are speaking of, it had been determined to send Wilhelm out from home, for the despatch of some commercial affairs. "
12 " Seit der Zeit bin ich oft draußen. "
13 " It is a false compliance with the multitude to raise in them emotions which they wish, when these are not emotions which they ought, to feel.” “Whoever "
14 " I can promise you, if you would rightly apply your poetic view, my goddess might be represented as an invincible, victorious queen, and boldly opposed to yours. It is true, she bears the olive rather than the sword: dagger or chain she knows not. "
15 " This sally somewhat nettled Wilhelm; but he concealed his sentiments, remembering that Werner used to listen with composure to his apostrophes. "
16 " Es ist ein einförmiges Ding um das Menschengeschlecht. "
17 " O Bestimmung des Menschen! "
18 " Göttin! Königin! Selbst Sklavin des Schicksals! "
19 " . In many points, both literary and moral, I could have wished devoutly that he had not written as he has done; "
20 " All the knowledge I possess every one else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own. "
