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Letter "J" » Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
«The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
completed, forward, sight, vanishes, vanishing
«Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Destiny
| Keywords:
destiny, grants, wishes
«What does not kill me makes me stronger.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Strength
| Keywords:
kill, stronger
«Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Action,
Magic
| Keywords:
grace, magic
«Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Time
| Keywords:
cheerfulness, mirth, overtake, overtaken, overtaking, passing
«Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain»
«Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
announce, announces, announcing, awkwardness, endowment, endowments, singularities, singularity, youth, youths
«By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
by nature, defect
«He alone is great and happy who requires neither to command nor to obey in order to secure his being of some importance in this world»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
alone, as required, command, happy, importance, in order, in this, In this World, neither, Nor, obey, order, requires, secure, securing
«Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
fearful
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