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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

«Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.»
«All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.»
«We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.»
«Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.»
«It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish.»
«There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.»
«The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.»
«Without haste, but without rest.»
«To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities»
«One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.»