Age quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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"Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly achieve in an age."
"A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own."
"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
"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."
"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."
"The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them."
"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it only finds us true children still."
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
"Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color."
"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green."
"Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks."
"Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different."
"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 are of laurel and myrtle and rose?"
"Correction does much, but encouragement does more."
"Plunge boldly into the thick of life!"
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."
"A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them."
"Whatever you can do, or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."
"Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error."