"By seeking and blundering we learn."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on research
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"A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on retirement   

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on sacrifice   

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on secrets
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"Trust yourself, then you will know how to live."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on self-esteem
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"Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on knowledge
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"The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on senses   

"Stupidity is without anxiety."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on stupidity
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"Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action
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"How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action
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"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on action
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"Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on beauty
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"Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image"

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on behavior
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"Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on belief
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"If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on belief
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"Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on challenges
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"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on change
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"Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on character
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"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."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on thoughts and thinking   

"Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on time   

"As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on trust
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"It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on truth
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"To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed -- That can make life a garden."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on understanding
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"The man of understanding finds everything laughable."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on understanding
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"So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!"

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on understanding
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"Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on weakness
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"This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on wisdom
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"Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on words
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"We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on children
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"Where there is much light, the shadow is deep."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on contrast
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"Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on courage
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"The coward threatens when he is safe."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on war
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"There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on crime and criminals   

"Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!"

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on criticism   

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on culture   

"A useless life is an early death."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on death
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"What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul."

Addison, Joseph on education
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"Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose."

Addison, Joseph on happiness
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"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for."

Addison, Joseph on happiness
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