QUOTES by Johann Von Goethe
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"In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply."
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"People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually."
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"Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life."
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"No one would talk much in society, if he knew how often he misunderstands others"
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"To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves."
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"There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world."
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"This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us"
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"When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be."
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"There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables."
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"I've studied now Philosophy and Jurisprudence, Medicine -- and even, alas! Theology -- from end to end with labor keen; and here, poor fool with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before."
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"If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything."
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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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"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."
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"If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts."
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"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."
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"Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them."
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"Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness."
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"Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will."
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"It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman."
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"Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it."
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"Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time."
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"The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do."
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