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Famous quotes from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832)
was a German writer, biologist, pictorial artist, theoretical physicist, and polymath.

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.

“If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.”

“The coward only threatens when he is safe.”

“If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

“Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

“One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

“The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

“If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

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