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Years Quotes by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life…
- How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!
- Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.
- How many years you have to keep on doing, until you know what to do and how to do!
- People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise…
- There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I…
- Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
- If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
- He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
- Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
- The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that…
- If one does not know what went on for the last three thousand years, he or she remains ignorant, merely surviving from day-to-day
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- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
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- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
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- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz