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Freedom and life are earned by those alone
Who conquer them each day anew

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others,
And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.
Not in the morning alone, not only at mid-day he charmeth;
Even at setting, the sun is still the same glorious planet.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He alone is great and happy who fills his own station of independence, and has neither to command nor to obey.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The message well I hear, my faith alone is weak.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I hold to faith in the divine love — which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ — as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My worthy friend, gray are all theories
And green alone Life's golden tree.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Noble be man,
Helpful and good!
For that alone
Sets hims apart
From every other creature
On earth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is wisdom's final thought:
Freedom alone he earns as well as life
Who day by day must conquer them anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Germans — and they are not alone in this — have a knack of making the sciences unapproachable.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Her crown is love. Through love alone dare we come near her. She separates all existences, and all tend to intermingle. She has isolated all things in order that all may approach one another. She holds a couple of draughts from the cup of love to be fair payment for the pains of a lifetime.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is difficult to know how to treat the errors of the age. If a man oppose them, he stands alone; if he surrender to them, they bring him neither joy nor credit.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe