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There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be

There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

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Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

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Motivational, Courage, Clever

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

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Common Sense, Advantage, Sensible

I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.

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Heart, Soul, Noble
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.3, 谷月社

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

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Work, Acceptance, Men

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

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Dancer, Wish, Wire

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

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Creative, Way, Artistic

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.

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Inspirational, Knowing Who You Are, Goal

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

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Inspirational, Life, Change
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1989). “Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants”, p.111, Princeton University Press

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

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Inspirational, Contradiction, Agree
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.221, Ravenio Books

Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

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Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.

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Life, Happiness, Quality

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

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Lying, Men, Wish

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

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Inspirational, Life, Adventure

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

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Passion, Feelings, May

One errs as long as one strives.

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Errors, Long, Strive

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive.

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Travel, Adventure, Passive Voice

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

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Insight, Terrible, Activity

I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.

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Tolerance, May, Bent

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Education, Children, Insanity
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1842). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.78

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational, Laughter, Character
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2016). “Elective Affinities”, p.142, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Winning, Generosity, Favour

Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.

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Skins, Core

As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.

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Death, Dark, Law

What one doesn't understand one doesn't possess.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Understanding

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