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The present moment is a powerful goddess.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
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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.
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
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Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
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Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
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Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.
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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
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No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
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Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.
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I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.
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Make the most of time, it flies away so fast yet method will teach you to win time.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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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And future deeds crowded round us as the countless stars in the night. [Ger., Und kunftige Thaten drangen wie die Sterne Rings um uns her unzahlig aus der Nacht.]
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I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.
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You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.
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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
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