Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Youth
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Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.
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The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.
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Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
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Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.
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Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.
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Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
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To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.
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We must be young to do great things.
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We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness, her character, with its faults, caprices and God knows what other inexpressible charms; but we do not love her understanding.
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Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.
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Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
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What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.
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Tell me, how do you cope so calmly With crazy youth's arrogant way? Indeed, youth would be insufferable, Had I myself not also been insufferable.
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Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.
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Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!
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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
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If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.
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If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
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Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give me back my youth again!
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Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair; When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.
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I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!
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