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 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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“The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognising a truth which has already been recognised by others.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Nine requisites for contented living: 
Health enough to make work a pleasure. 
Wealth enough to support your needs. 
Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. 
Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. 
Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. 
Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. 
Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. 
Faith enough to make real the things of God. 
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.” 
Johann -W. V. Goethe
“If I love you, what business is it of yours?” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free"
―Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love ” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A person who does not know the history of the last 3,000 years wanders in the darkness of ignorance, unable to make sense of the reality around him” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“knowing is not enough,we must apply willing is not enough,we must do..” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Everything is hard before it is easy” 
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nationality: German 
Born: August 28, 1749
Died: March 22, 1832
Known For: Writer and Statesman