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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

«We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.»
«The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.»
«Everybody wants to get old, but nobody wants to be old»
«All things are only transitory.»
«Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.»
«On all the peaks lies peace.»
«A useless life is an early death»
«No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.»
«Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.»
«If you have any faith, give me, for heaven's sake, a share of it! Your doubts you may keep to yourself, for I have a plenty of my own»