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There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.


Johann von Goethe

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JOHANN VON GOETHE Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Superstition is the poetry of life.
JOHANN VON GOETHE The people rate strength before everything.
JOHANN VON GOETHE A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
JOHANN VON GOETHE People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselve...
JOHANN VON GOETHE By seeking and blundering we learn.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are...
JOHANN VON GOETHE People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they en...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to w...
JOHANN VON GOETHE I do not now begin,--I still adore
Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast;
Then once again ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
JOHANN VON GOETHE We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.
JOHANN VON GOETHE He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
JOHANN VON GOETHE