John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832 John Bartlett
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| Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,— He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers. |
| Wilhelm Meister. Book ii. Chap. xiii. |
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| 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? 1 |
| Wilhelm Meister. Book iii. Chap. i. |
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| Art is long, life short; 2 judgment difficult, opportunity transient. |
| Wilhelm Meister. Book vii. Chap. ix. |
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| The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception. |
| Autobiography. Book xviii. Truth and Beauty. |
| Note 1. See Byron, Quotation 122. [back] |
| Note 2. See Chaucer, Quotation 52. [back] |