Goethe Quote

[Fred Shapiro]

On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Sep 18, 1932. p.
> BR29 (2 pages) _"What You Set Your Heart Upon"_ M. BECKHARD, New York
> City--The quotation from Emerson wanted by S. E. B. (Aug. 28) is
> probably the following from his essay on "Fate":
>
> ...the moral is that what we seek we shall find; ... as Goethe said:
> "What we wish for in youth come in heaps on us in old age, too often
> cursed with the granting of our prayer; and hence the high caution that
> since we are sure of having what we wish we beware to ask only of high
> things."

Can anyone help me trace where Goethe said this?

Fred Shapiro


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