And hopefully that's not all. We've encouraged people here at work to also donate. I cut out the Reaching Out forms and asked employees to do that instead if they thought about getting us presents.


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JOHANN VON GOETHE
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recogni...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retro...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfac...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
In all things it is better to hope than to despair.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Be he a king or a peasant, he is happiest who finds peace at home.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The history of mankind is his character.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Ambition and love are the wings to great deeds.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A distracted existence leads us to no goal.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Their is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.
JOHANN VON GOETHE