All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.


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If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
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Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of sol...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL
In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHLEGEL
I wonder if you know yet that you’ll leave me. That you are a child playing with matches and I hav...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS
If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that u...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerful...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reac...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself.
KAJETAN VON SCHLAGGENBERG
The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the m...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally i...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his fail...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a pr...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The unnatural, that too is natural.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always righ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized worl...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable...the art of the next best.
OTTO VON BISMARCK
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER
I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the w...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they of...
JOHANN VON GOETHE