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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Men are dogs. Men are dogs. We got to stop it. Men are not dogs. Uh-uh. Dogs are loyal.
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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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I always say that women are very strong and men are powerful. But beauty gives you both strength and power. I never think of it. It's just one of those natural things. It's the only thing I know how to do.
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... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)
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People like Prince don't have to care about anything, but they care because they want music for the future to be great.
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As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.
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I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.
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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.
