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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
«Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
dissipate, dissipating, ill-judged, outlay, outlays
«People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
aptitudes, constituted, undertake
«We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
constituted, engrave, engraved, engraves
«The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
decline, downward, indicates, keep pace
«We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
get hold, get hold of