Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I think Baltimore suffers from nostalgia and it keeps us from being honest in talking about what really happened here. A place doesn't have to be perfect to be beloved, and I love this city and I love it better for seeing its flaws.
Laura Lippman -
The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.
Oscar Wilde -
One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.
Marina Tsvetaeva -
Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself).
Friedrich Nietzsche -
What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
One is punished best for one's virtues.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
Herodotus
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Yes, Isaac Taylor, who has just published 'The World of Mind,' is the Isaac Taylor, author of the 'Natural History of Enthusiasm.' I dare say by this time there is a want of fatty particles in his brain.
George Eliot -
He shrank from hearing Margaret's very name mentioned; he, while he blamed her--while he was jealous of her--while he renounced her--he loved her sorely, in spite of himself.
Elizabeth Gaskell -
The job isn't done until you've blamed someone for the parts that went wrong.
Scott Adams -
The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature.
Soren Kierkegaard -
A teetotaller is one who suffers from thirst instead of enjoying it.
Thomas Dewar -
It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.
Sarah Addison Allen
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Nine in the box... that's a football term.
Ricky Williams -
It's much harder to provide a great customer service than I would have ever realised. It's much more art than science in some of these other areas and not just about the facts but about how you are conveying them.
David Yu -
A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe