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Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Johann Von Goethe on death

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Johann Von Goethe on desire

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Johann Von Goethe on eternity

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.
Johann Von Goethe on growth

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Johann Von Goethe on happiness

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay.
Johann Von Goethe on intelligence

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
Johann Von Goethe on intelligence

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Johann Von Goethe on life

Life is the childhood of our immortality.
Johann Von Goethe on life

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.
Johann Von Goethe on literature

It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
Johann Von Goethe on pride

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
Johann Von Goethe on progress

On every mountain height is rest.
Johann Von Goethe on rest

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
Johann Von Goethe on sorrow

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
Johann Von Goethe on taste

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Johann Von Goethe on time

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
Johann Von Goethe on time

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
Johann Von Goethe on time

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
Johann Von Goethe on truth

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it. Others do just the same with their time.
Johann Von Goethe on wealth