| History is a mixture of error and violence. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Mysteries are not necessarily miracles. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Every second is of infinite value. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| When ideas fail, words come in very handy. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Few people have the imagination for reality. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| To rule is easy, to govern difficult. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost—better you were never born |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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| As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. |
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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