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Proper Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
- A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
- If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the…
- Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
- Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of…
- Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
- I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus…
- A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with…
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