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If A Good Person Does You Wrong, Act As Though You Had Not Noticed It. If We Practice And Eye For An Eye And A Tooth For A Tooth, Soon The Wholeworld Will Be Blind And Toothless.

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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If A Good Person Does You Wrong, Act As Though You Had Not Noticed It. If We Practice And Eye For An Eye And A Tooth For A Tooth, Soon The Wholeworld Will Be Blind And Toothless.

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Miracle Is The Pet Child Of Faith.

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Marriage Is The Beginning And Pinnacle Of Civilization.

We Are Never Further From What We Wish Than When We Believe That We Have What We Wished For.

Man Is Made By His Belief. As He Believes, So He Is.

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To Be Loved For What One Is, That Is The Greatest Exception. The Great Majority Love In Others Only What They Lend Him; Their Own Selves, Their Version Of Him.

Power Is Neither Male Nor Female.

Sound And Sufficient Reason Falls, After All, To The Share Of But Few Men, And Those Few Men Exert Their Influence In Silence.

The Flowers Of Life Are But Illusions. How Many Fade Away And Leave No Trace.

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Whoever Would Do Good In The World, Ought Not To Deal In Censure. We Ought Not To Destroy, But Rather Construct.

Great Possessions And Great Want Of Them Are Both Strong Temptations.

Sweet Moonlight, Shining Full And Clear, Why Do You Light My Torture Here? How Often Have You Seen Me Toil, Burning Last Drops Of Midnight Oil. On Books And Papers As I Read, My Friend, Your Mournful Light You Shed. If Only I Could Flee This Den And Walk The Mountain-tops Again, Through Moonlit Meadows Make My Way, In Mountain Caves With Spirits Play - Released From Learning's Musty Cell, Your Healing Dew Would Make Me Well!

Sceptics Are Yet The Most Credulous.

I Do Not Now Begin, - I Still Adore Her Whom I Early Cherish'd In My Breast; Then Once Again With Prudence Dispossess'd, And To Whose Heart I'm Driven Back Once More. The Love Of Petrarch, That All-glorious Love, Was Unrequited, And, Alas, Full Sad.

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Lay Hold Of Life With Both Hands, Whenever Thou Mayest Seize It, It Is Interesting.

A Talent Is Formed In Stillness, A Character In The World's Torrent.

Yet Through Delivery Orators Succeed, I Feel That I Am Far Behind Indeed.

I Hate All Bungling As I Do Sin, But Particularly Bungling In Politics, Which Leads To The Misery And Ruin Of Many Thousands And Millions Of People.

What Is The Path? There Is No Path. On Into The Unknown.

Pain And Pleasure, Good And Evil, Come To Us From Unexpected Sources. It Is Not There Where We Have Gathered Up Our Brightest Hopes, That The Dawn Of Happiness Breaks. It Is Not There Where We Have Glanced Our Eye With Affright, That We Find The Deadliest Gloom. What Should This Teach Us? To Bow To The Great And Only Source Of Light, And Live Humbly And With Confiding Resignation.

What One Doesn't Understand One Doesn't Possess.

Writing Is Busy Idleness.

Perseverance Is A Silent Power That Grows Irresistibly Greater With Time.

Happiness Is A Ball After Which We Run Wherever It Rolls, And We Push It With Our Feet When It Stops.

Mastery Passes Often For Egotism.

Reason Looks At Necessity As The Basis Of The World; Reason Is Able To Turn Chance In Your Favor And Use It. Only By Having Reasonremain Strong And Unshakable Can We Be Called A God Of The Earth.

Democracy Does Not Race, It Reaches The Finish Slowly But Surely.

Some People Spend The Day In Complaining Of A Headache, And The Night In Drinking The Wine That Gives It.

Alas! Sorrow From Happiness Is Oft Evolved.

We Can't Form Our Children On Our Own Concepts; We Must Take Them And Love Them As God Gives Them To Us.

Give Me Those Days With Heart In Riot, The Depths Of Bliss That Touched On Pain, The Force Of Hate, And Love's Disquiet- Ah, Give Me Back My Youth Again!

Oblivion Is Full Of People Who Allow The Opinions Of Others To Overrule Their Belief In Themselves.

It Is Much Easier To Meet With Error Than To Find Truth; Error Is On The Surface, And Can Be More Easily Met With; Truth Is Hid In Great Depths, The Way To Seek Does Not Appear To All The World.

The Beginning Of Faith Is The Beginning Of Fruitfulness; But The Beginning Of Unbelief, However Glittering, Is Empty.

A School Of Art Or Of Anything Else Is To Be Looked On As A Single Individual, Who Keeps Talking To Himself For A Hundred Years, And Feels An Extreme Satisfaction With His Own Circle Of Favorite Ideas, Be They Ever So Silly.

Character - In Things Great And Small - Is Indicated When A Man (or Person) Pursues With Sustained Follow-through What He Feels Himself Capable Of Doing.

Publishers Are All Cohorts Of The Devil; There Must Be A Special Hell For Them Somewhere.

The Church Alone Beyond All Question Has For Ill-gotten Goods The Right Digestion.

Be Always Resolute With The Present Hour. Every Moment Is Of Infinite Value.

If Youth Is A Fault, It Is One That One Gets Rid Of Soon Enough.

How Many Years You Have To Keep On Doing, Until You Know What To Do And How To Do!

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