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Present Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially…
- Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so…
- Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
- Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.
- If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
- The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
- No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the…
- Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision...…
- The present moment is a powerful goddess.
- There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this-did not use their imaginations so busily…
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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- Confine yourself to the present. — Marcus Aurelius
- Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today… — Marcus Aurelius
- The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand… — Diane Ackerman
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- An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect… — Irving Babbitt
- Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. — Roger Babson
- Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want… — Michelle Bachelet
- In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. — Francis Bacon