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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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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Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.
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The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others, Others, like blood. With saucy gesture Primroses flare, And roguish violets, Hidden with care And whatsoever There stirs and strives, The Spring's contented, If works and thrives.
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If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.
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The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.
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The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
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Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
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Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated Begin it, and the work will be completed.
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The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.
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Energy will do anything that can be done in the world and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
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What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
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The history of mankind is his character.
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Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.
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How circumscribed is woman's destiny!
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Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.
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To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.
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The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
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