Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Wonder
  • Grief
  • Unhappy Person