He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHEWhat is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
More Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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Night is the other half of life, and the better half.
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To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.
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The rich want good wine, the poor, plenty of wine.
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Everything transitory is but an image.
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Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
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Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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What is uttered from the heart alone will win the heart of others to your own.
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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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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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