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Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his

Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Office, House, Needs
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1989). “Criticisms, Reflections, and Maxims of Goethe”, Richard West

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

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Excellence, Found

It is delivery that makes the orators success.

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Delivery, Orators, Speakers

The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.

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History, Political, Conflict

The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.

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Reflection, Thinking, Mirrors
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1941). “Faust: Parts one and two”

The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.

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Running, Believe, Wheat

Art is long, life is short; judgement difficult, opportunity transient.

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Life, Art, Opportunity

Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.

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Photography, Stories, Literature

If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.

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Demand, Accomplish, Ifs

Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

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Book, Artistic, Teach
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3567, Delphi Classics

I call architecture frozen music.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Music, Badass, Bad Ass
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1839). “Conversations with Goethe in the Last Years of His Life”, p.282

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational, Inspiring, Witty

Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith.

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Faith, Needs, Satisfaction

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

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Art, Patriotic, Science
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.

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Solitude, Innovation, Facts

One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

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Song, Everyday, Speak

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

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Love, How To Love, Worship

Miracle is the pet child of faith.

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Children, Miracle, Pet
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1859). “Faust: A Dramatic Poem”, p.51

People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.

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People, Peculiar, Spirituality

The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet.

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Vices, Masters, Valet
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.113

If your treat an individual... 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
Inspirational, Motivational, Literature

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.

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Men, Would Be, Lord

The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Masters, Prove

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

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Life, Character, Streams

If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Misery, Ifs

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