–“Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.” GOETHE –“He who seizes the right moment, Is the right man.” GOETHE –“If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.” GOETHE –“It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.” GOETHE –“It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.” GOETHE –“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.” GOETHE –“Love is an ideal thing, marriage is a real thing.” GOETHE –“Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things… For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” GOETHE –“Nothing is more revolting than the majority; for it consists of few vigorous predecessors of knaves who accommodate themselves, of weak people who assimilate themselves, and the mass that toddles after them without knowing in the least what it wants.” GOETHE –“Nothing shows a man’s character more than what laughs at.” GOETHE –“Only begin and then the mind grows heated; only begin and the task, will be completed.” GOETHE –“Talent develops in tranquility, character in
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