Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD Let one who seeks not stop seeking until that person finds.
T. SCOTT MCLEOD PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
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JAMES DURBIN Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little
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DANIEL WILKINSON The person who is always criticizing others is usually the one who deserves criticism the most.
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JOE LOCKHART Too much wisdom is a heavy luggage to a true sensible person for he often finds it a sheer wastage.
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DANIEL MELGAçO A great majority of people like only a person who is not in the elements of his own not one who is t...
ANUJ SOMANY The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous
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VINCE STAPLES The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him...
KARL RAHNER What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL A rich person is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least.
UNKNOWN The mystery of seeking God is that HE is the One who finds you.
KINGSLEY OPUWARI MANUEL We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off.
MARIA SHRIVER The richest person in the cemetery is the one who left the most happy memories.
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GARY F EVANS... Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wi...
FRANZ SCHUBERT A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
MARK TWAIN My time has is here, my mission has failed, but in spite of my limitations i will never loose faith....
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C. JOYBELL C. The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
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ZAGAT SURVEY Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).
- Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck,
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ELIZABETH WURTZEL All the knowledge I possess everyone can acquire, but my heart is all my own. -Goethe.
GOETHE When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS... If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine.
- Johann Christoph Friedrich v...
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STEVEN VAN ZANDT You always have to try to understand: Is it a good person who just made a bad decision. In most case...
DENNY GREEN Its who you know you are on the inside that most define the person you are. What one most understand...
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GARY F EVANS... The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.
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ANUJ SOMANY Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others f...
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RICHARD PRICE The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, t...
MAX BARRY Happy is the person who finds fault with himself
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PROPHET MUHAMMAD P.B.U.H The most important service to others is service to those who are not like yourself.
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VICTOR HUGO Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the ma...
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man...
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ELEANOR HALLOWELL ABBOTT A beautiful person is he who finds beauty in wherever he goes and in whatever he sees.
DEBASISH MRIDHA To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace.
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[Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher ...
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[Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als e...
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE What they're accustomed to is no great matter,
But then, alas! they've read an awful deal.
[G...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Yet he who grasps the moment's gift,
He is the proper man.
[Ger., Der den Augenblick ergreift,...
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Unite and guide, a better.
[Ger., Entzwei' und gebiete! Tuc...
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[Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den T...
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"I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works goo...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE You are aware of only one unrest;
Oh, never learn to know the other!
Two souls, alas, are ...
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[Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das He...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE My peace is gone, my heart is heavy.
[Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin,
Mein Herz ist schwer.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.
[Ger., Das beste Gluck, des Lebe...
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And in their pleasure takes joy, ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
[Ger., Das erste und letzte, was...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Which government is best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves
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[Ger., Der Mutter schenk' ich,
Die T...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms.
[Ger., Die Gaben
Kommen von oben herab, in ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed.
[Ger., Gleich schenken? das ist brav. Da...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given;
The dearest child of Faith is Miracle
[Ger...
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[Ger., Der Fiege droht nur, wo er sicher ist.]
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The church alone beyond all question
Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
[Ger., Die ...
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Culture which smooth the whole world licks,
Also unto the devil sticks.
[Ger., Auch die Kultur...
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[Ger., Wenn ihr's nicht fuhlt ihr werdet's nic...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
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[Ger., Denn ein wanderndes Madchen ist immer v...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession
of prosperous days.
[Ger., Alles...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE While man's desires and aspirations stir,
He can not choose but err.
[Ger., Es irrt der Mensch...
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JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.
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The land retains it never.
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brights.
[Ger., Das sterbliche Gesc...
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When obstacles its course oppose.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Where there are no women there are no good manners
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The universal subjugator, the commonplace.
[Ger., Was uns alle bandigt, das Gemeine.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the mome...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Everyone hears only what he understands.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult t...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish
the barriers of nationality.
[G...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these
lines what does not stand written in t...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE The society of women is the element of good manners.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Loving is a feeling that brings both joy and pain to my heart. Joy from being with you, being filled...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unp...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Each one sees what he carries in his heart
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured.
[Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE For to give is the business of the rich.
[Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie.
[Ger., Wenn ich irre kann es jeder bemerken; ...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss.
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