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- Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), Faust
- If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Science arose from poetry--when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
- 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.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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