Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Deli Quotations

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.

A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me.

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed. [Ger., Allein der Vortrag macht des Redners Gluck, Ich fuhl es wohl noch bin ich weit zuruck.]

To see I was born, To look is my call, To the tower sworn, I delight in all. I glance out far, And see what is near... You blessed eyes, What you saw everywhere,