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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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# · Not So Good (20 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him, he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Vice and Virtue and Work and Recreation
# · Not So Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)
Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it, and have not reached my goal.
# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
I do not know myself and God forbid that I should.
# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
# · Not So Good (6 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
# · Not So Good (7 ratings) · submitted 1997
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
# · Not So Good (2 ratings) · submitted 1997
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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