Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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 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.
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.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.
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.
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
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.
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.

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