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(871 votes)  People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(869 votes)  The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(840 votes)  Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(807 votes)  What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(797 votes)  To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

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(735 votes)  People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(664 votes)  All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(659 votes)  Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(651 votes)  Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(640 votes)  Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(639 votes)  Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(628 votes)  Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(627 votes)  The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(627 votes)  A distracted existence leads us to no goal.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(622 votes)  The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(618 votes)  Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(613 votes)  He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(608 votes)  Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(603 votes)  Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(599 votes)  Their is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(589 votes)  Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(589 votes)  We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(588 votes)  One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(585 votes)  For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(582 votes)  If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(577 votes)  Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(478 votes)  Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.

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(420 votes)  All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(419 votes)  He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(395 votes)  Before you can do something you must first be something.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(391 votes)  We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(389 votes)  Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(387 votes)  One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(386 votes)  The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(380 votes)  The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(378 votes)  One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(374 votes)  The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(370 votes)  Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(360 votes)  The coward threatens when he is safe.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(353 votes)  It is delivery that makes the orators success.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(351 votes)  Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.''

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(351 votes)  No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(347 votes)  What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(346 votes)  Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(346 votes)  Every offense is avenged on earth.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(337 votes)  The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(335 votes)  Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(333 votes)  It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(332 votes)  Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune's always here.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(323 votes)  Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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