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«While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err»
«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
«A distracted existence leads us to no goal.»
«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
«No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.»
«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)
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get hold, get hold of
«The world remains ever the same.»
«Only law can give us freedom.»
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