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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels

Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 14 quotes · Easy, Hard, Thinking

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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels Quotes

“In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.”

“Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.”