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Soon Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.
- Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.
- Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then;…
- People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and…
- Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his…
- 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…
- The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's…
- Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back…
- People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and…
- Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon…
- Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.
- If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as…
- As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
- Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.
- Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
- As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
- If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a…
- How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.
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