Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.
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I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.
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If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative proportion between man and his God. Thus, the idea of God can never enter the human mind.
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Any man who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
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Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.
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Go West, young man.
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There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.
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When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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We're not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.
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The American Dream is that any man or woman, despite of his or her background, can change their circumstances and rise as high as they are willing to work.
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The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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Scientology is the study of knowingness. It increases one's knowingness, but if a man were totally aware of what was going on around him, he would find it relatively simple to handle any outnesses in that.
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In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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I am a common man. Why do I need security?
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I was not in 'Iron Man 2,' but I take a daily iron supplement.
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Man, I'm sick of doubt.
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I've been working hard: lots of therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, yoga too.
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Being a woman in country is really empowering. It's a genre where you can truly say whatever you want to say as long as you're 100% behind your message and who you are.
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When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.
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There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.
