Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. Not in the morning alone, not only at mid-day he charmeth; Even at setting, the sun is still the same glorious planet.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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I didn't get at first put into a rehab facility; I got put in a adolescent psychiatric unit for my detox.
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That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
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There are many things which swallow up men's thoughts while they live, which they will think little of when they are dying. Hundreds are wholly absorbed in political schemes and seem to care for nothing but the advancement of their own party. Myriads are buried in business and money matters and seem to neglect everything else but this world.
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The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.
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I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
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When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got to be perfectly at home in men's clothes.
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No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
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At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
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A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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Women and men look at their life, and women say, 'What do I need? Do I need more money, or do I need more time?' And women are intelligent enough to say, 'I need more time.' And so, women lead balanced lives; men should be learning from women.
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Any property that's open to common use gets destroyed. Because everyone has incentive to use it to the max, but no one has incentive to maintain it.
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Boron is carbon's neighbor on the periodic table, which means it can do a passable carbon impression and wriggle its way into the matrix of a diamond. But it has one fewer electron, so it can't quite form the same four perfect bonds.
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There's people who don't want to see bodies like mine or bodies like their own bodies.
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It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. Not in the morning alone, not only at mid-day he charmeth; Even at setting, the sun is still the same glorious planet.
