Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.
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I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.
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Musharraf is a good man and wants to improve relations with India.
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Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.
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Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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Good manners will often take people where neither money nor education will take them.
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A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods.
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It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
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When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
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For who is there but you? - who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others.
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Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.
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When I was still a rather precocious young man, I already realized most vividly the futility of the hopes and aspirations that most men pursue throughout their lives.
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Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations.
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I have no aspirations of growing old and boring.
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The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
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I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never come to the good at all, because they reject them. And lawful gains rarely come to the good, because, since much anxious care is needful thereto, and the anxious care of the good man is directed to weightier matters, rarely does the good man give sufficient attention thereto. Wherefore it is clear that in every way the advent of these riches is iniquitous.
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I don't see myself as a different guy than I was ten years ago. I don't have aspirations to be. It's really about where you're putting your energies. That's changing a lot.
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If man do not find in himself the required (or wished, or wanted, - "voulue", Fr.) force to accomplish his moral aspirations, he can try to purt himself in the conditions suitable to assist (or promote, or further, -"favoriser", Fr.) his self-control.
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I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?
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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.
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Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.
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I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.
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The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.
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A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.
