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We Must Not Hope To Be Mowers, And To Gather The Ripe Gold Ears, Unless We Have First Been Sowers And Water The Furrows With Tears. It Is Not Just As We Take It, This Mystical World Of Ours, Life's Field Will Yield As We Make It A Harvest Of Thorns Or Of Flowers.

-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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We Must Not Hope

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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We Must Not Hope To Be Mowers, And To Gather The Ripe Gold Ears, Unless We Have First Been Sowers And Water The Furrows With Tears. It Is Not Just As We Take It, This Mystical World Of Ours, Life's Field Will Yield As We Make It A Harvest Of Thorns Or Of Flowers.

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Common Sense Is The Genius Of Humanity.

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Passions Are Defects Or Virtues In The Highest Power.

The World Of Reason Is To Be Regarded As A Great And Immortal Being, Who Ceaselessly Works Out What Is Necessary, And So Makes Himself Lord Also Over What Is Accidental.

When Ideas Fail, Words Come In Very Handy.

The Highest Happiness, The Purest Joys Of Life, Wear Out At Last.

English Plays, Atrocious In Content, Absurd In Form, Objectionable In Action, Execrable Englishtheatre.

Time Flies, And What Is Past Is Done.

Analysis And Synthesis Are Both As Necessary To The Thinking Spirit As Inspiration And Expiration To The Organism.

Science Arose From Poetry... When Times Change The Two Can Meet Again On A Higher Level As Friends.

Power Is Neither Male Nor Female.

Life Is Too Short To Drink Bad Wine.

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All The Knowledge I Possess Everyone Else Can Acquire, But My Heart Is All My Own.

The Unnatural, That Too Is Natural.

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What You Can Do, Or Think You Can, Begin It.

Decision Making

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

The Century Is Advanced, But Every Individual Begins Afresh.

All Understanding Begins In Wonder!

One Usually Thinks People To Be More Dangerous Than They Are.

We Don't Get To Know People When They Come To Us; We Must Go To Them To Find Out What They Are Like.

The Best Fortune That Can Fall To A Man Is That Which Corrects His Defects And Makes Up For His Failings.

Man Must Strive, And Striving He Must Err.

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Truth Must Be Repeated Again And Again, Because Error Is Constantly Being Preached Round About.

Again And Again

Such Is The Frailty Of Man That Even Where He Makes The Truest And Most Forcible Impression In The Memory, In The Heart Of His Beloved, There Also He Must Perish.

People Are Always Talking About Originality; But What Do They Mean? As Soon As We Are Born, The World Begins To Work Upon Us; And This Goes On To The End. And After All, What Can We Call Our Own, Except Energy, Strength, And Will? If I Could Give An Account Of All That I Owe To Great Predecessors And Contemporaries, There Would Be But A Small Balance In My Favor.

The World Runs On From One Folly To Another; And The Man Who, Solely From Regard To The Opinion Of Others, And Without Any Wish Or Necessity Of His Own, Toils After Gold, Honour, Or Any Other Phantom, Is No Better Than A Fool.

It Is Not Doing The Thing We Like To Do, But Liking The Thing We Have To Do, That Makes Life Blessed.

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Wisdom Is Only Found In Truth. [ger., Die Weisheit Ist Nur In Der Wahrheit.]

What Chance Gathers, She Easily Scatters. A Great Person Attracts Great People And Knows How To Hold Them Together.

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.

What Is Fruitful Alone Is True.

Blood Is A Juice Of Rarest Quality. [ger., Blut Ist Ein Ganz Beondrer Saft.]

If You Wish To Advance Into The Infinite, Explore The Finite In All Directions.

Desire Is The Presentiment Of Our Inner Abilities, And The Forerunner Of Our Ultimate Accomplishments.

Collectors Are Happy People.

The Realization Of The Self Is Only Possible If One Is Productive, If One Can Give Birth To One's Own Potentialities.

It Is Delivery That Makes The Orators Success.

Painting And Tattooing The Body Is A Return To Animalism.

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

All Intelligent Thoughts Have Already Been Thought; What Is Necessary Is Only To Try To Think Them Again.

If You Want To Understand Poetry, You Have To Go To Its Origin, If You Want To Understand The Poet, You Have To Go To The Poet's Home.

Talk Well Of The Absent Whenever You Have The Opportunity.

We Can Redeem Anyone Who Strives Unceasingly.

Nothing Puts Me So Completely Out Of Patience As The Utterance Of A Wretched Commonplace When I Am Talking From My Inmost Heart.

How Shall We Plan, That All Be Fresh And New-- Important Matter Yet Attractive Too? [ger., Wie Machen Wir's, Dass Alles Frisch Und Neu Und Mit Bedeutung Auch Gefallig Sei?]

Truth Is A Torch But A Tremendous One. That Is Why We Hurry Past It, Shielding Our Eyes, Indeed, In Fear Of Getting Burned.

Nothing Is True, But That Which Is Simple.

Superstition Is Part Of The Poetry Of Life.

What Dazzles, For The Moment Spends Its Spirit; Whats Genuine, Shall Posterity Inherit.

Wealth And Speed Are What The World Admires, What Each Pursues. Railways, Express Mails, Steamships And Every Possible Facility For Communications Are The Achievement In Which The Civilized World View And Revels, Only To Languish In Mediocrity By That Very Fact. Indeed, The Effect Of This Diffusion Is To Spread The Culture Of The Mediocre.

Never By Reflection, But Only By Doing Is Self- Knowledge Possible To One.

There Is Nothing In Life So Irrational, That Good Sense And Chance May Not Set It To Rights; Nothing So Rational, That Folly And Chance May Not Utterly Confound It.

[w]hat Counts Is That One Perceives Excellence And Dares To Give It Expression, Which Sounds Little But Is In Fact A Great Deal.

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

All Beginnings Are Delightful; The Threshold Is The Place To Pause.

Not The Maker Of Plans And Promises, But Rather The One Who Offers Faithful Service In Small Matters. This Is The Person Who Is Most Likely To Achieve What Is Good And Lasting.

For I Have Been A Man, And That Means To Have Been A Fighter.

We Must Always Change, Renew, Rejuvenate Ourselves; Otherwise, We Harden.

The Person Of Analytic Or Critical Intellect Finds Something Ridiculous In Everything. The Person Of Synthetic Or Constructive Intellect, In Almost Nothing.

Patriotism Ruins History.

Don't Give Us Your Doubts, Gives Us Your Certainties, For We Have Doubts Enough Of Our Own.

I Have Never Looked At Foreign Countries Or Gone There But With The Purpose Of Getting To Know The General Human Qualities That Are Spread All Over The Earth In Very Different Forms, And Then To Find These Qualities Again In My Own Country And To Recognize And To Further Them.

Energy Will Do Anything That Can Be Done In The World; And No Talents, No Circumstances, No Opportunities Will Make A Two-legged Animal A Man Without It.

Nature Is Beneficent. I Praise Her And All Her Works. She Is Silent And Wise. She Is Cunning, But For Good Ends. She Has Brought Me Here And Will Also Lead Me Away. She May Scold Me, But She Will Not Hate Her Work. I Trust Her.

The Most Fortunate Of Men, Be He A King Or Commoner, Is He Whose Welfare Is Assured In His Own Home.

If You Lay Duties Upon People And Give Them No Rights, You Must Pay Them Well.

The Passions Are Like Those Demons With Which Afrasahiab Sailed Down The Orus. Our Only Safety Consists In Keeping Them Asleep. If They We Are Lost.

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