Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes About Time
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Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
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Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
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Every second is of infinite value.
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.
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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
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How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.
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Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.
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Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine
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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
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My inheritance how lordly wide and fair; Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
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However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence. . . . Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.
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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.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
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The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.
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The present moment is a powerful goddess.
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Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.
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Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
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The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
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Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
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