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Johann von Goethe

Life dates: 1749 AD — 1832 AD

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1766 AD

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

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02c. 1766 AD

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

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03c. 1766 AD

We must always change renew rejuvenate ourselves otherwise we harden.

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04c. 1766 AD

Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.

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05c. 1766 AD

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

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06c. 1766 AD

What you can do or dream you can do begin it boldness has genius power and magic in it.

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07c. 1766 AD

Nature reacts not only to physical disease but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage.

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08c. 1766 AD

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

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09c. 1766 AD

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

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10c. 1766 AD

Man errs as long as he struggles.

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11c. 1766 AD

Man must strive and in striving he must err.

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12c. 1766 AD

Faith is hidden household capital.

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13c. 1766 AD

Go to the place where the thing you wish to know is native your best teacher is there. ... You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else.

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14c. 1766 AD

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.

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15c. 1766 AD

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

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16c. 1766 AD

Let us live while we are alive!

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17c. 1766 AD

Life's objective is life itself.

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18c. 1766 AD

Even the lowliest provided he is whole can be happy and in his own . way perfect.

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19c. 1766 AD

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

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20c. 1766 AD

A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.

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21c. 1766 AD

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others And in their pleasure takes joy even as though t'were his own.

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22c. 1766 AD

Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others and in their pleasure takes joy even as though it were his own.

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23c. 1766 AD

To measure up to all that is demanded of him a man must overestimate his capacities.

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24c. 1766 AD

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

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