Quotes with wolfgang

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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as long as the world lasts, no one will say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the particular. Rather we must modestly say it on the whole it is venerable, and in the particular practical.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
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    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
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    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
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    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
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    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
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    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
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