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Firsts Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- To have more, you must first be more.
- No one can take from us the joy of the first becoming aware of something, the so-called discovery. But if we also demand the honor,…
- To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting
- Before you can do something, you must first be something.
- First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.
- Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.
- We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with…
- However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our…
- Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.
- Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
- I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn.
- Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.
- A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
- First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
- It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.
- The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
- If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances.…
- I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light…
- If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a…
- When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for…
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