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Moderation
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Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
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Money
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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
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Motivational
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Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.
-Johann von Goethe
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It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
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Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
-Johann von Goethe
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Music
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The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it.
-Johann von Goethe
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Nature
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The unnatural, that too is natural.
-Johann von Goethe
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Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
-Johann von Goethe
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Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
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Necessity
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
-Johann von Goethe
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Observation
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Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.
-Johann von Goethe
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Opinion
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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?
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Opportunity
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The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
-Johann von Goethe
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Passion
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Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
-Johann von Goethe
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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Past, the
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There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.
-Johann von Goethe
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Patience
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The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.
-Johann von Goethe
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Perfection
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Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
-Johann von Goethe
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Persistence
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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
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Austere perseverance, hash and continuous... rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.
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Persuasion
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
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People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
-Johann von Goethe
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To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
-Johann von Goethe
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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
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Books by and about Johann von Goethe