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Tell Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to…
- Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
- If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.
- Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
- I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
- An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is…
- I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than book or orator.
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