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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every step of life shows much caution is required.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Few people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
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Biography

Type: Poet
Nationality: German
Born: August 28, 1749
Died: March 22, 1832

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