| 219 Famous Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light.”
Guidance Quotes |
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“Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.”
Hatred Quotes |
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“Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.”
Health Quotes |
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“If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.”
Illness Quotes |
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“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
Importance Quotes |
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“Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.”
Indecision Quotes |
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“Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
Language Quotes |
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“In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.”
Learning Quotes |
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“Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.”
Letters Quotes |
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“To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.”
Limitations Quotes |
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“The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.”
Literature Quotes |
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“The society of women is the element of good manners.”
Manners Quotes |
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“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
Mercy Quotes |
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“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”
Obligation Quotes |
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“All truly wise thoughts have been thought 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.”
Originality Quotes |
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“What we do not understand we do not possess.”
Possessions Quotes |
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“God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.”
Secrets Quotes |
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“If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.”
Unworthy Quotes |
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“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
Winning Quotes |
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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