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Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hope of new pleasure, is it worthwhile to dress and undress?

Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hope of new pleasure, is it worthwhile to dress and undress?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Morning, Joy, Dresses

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Thinking, Joy

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sympathy, Destiny, Joy

My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fate, Joy, Hereafter
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER (Literary Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel”, p.16, e-artnow

The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Happiness, Joy, Lasts
"Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, IV. 5. 9, April 6, 1779.

Colors are light's suffering and joy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Light, Color, Joy

Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Joy, Suffering
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1990). “Sammlung”, Burns & Oates

How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And thousand voices Each bush yields now. And joy and gladness Fill ev'ry breast! Oh earth!-oh sunlight! Oh rapture blest! Oh love! oh loved one!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Yield, Voice, Joy
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edgar Alfred BOWRING (1853). “The Poems of Goethe, Translated in the Original Metres, with a Sketch of Goethe's Life. By E. A. Bowring”, p.79

As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Joy, World, Dominion
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Anna Swanwick, Henry George Bohn (1860). “Dramatic works of Goethe: comprising Faust, Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso, Egmont”, p.273

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