Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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.
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.
Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stands on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.
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.
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
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I don't know how I got to this point but it must be as a result of everything that has come before so if I were to change something, I might not be at this point now.
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor.
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page.
All great peoples are conservative.
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.
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