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“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

“The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.”
― PEARL S. BUCK

“Talent develops in solitude, character develops in the stream of life.”
― Goethe, Schiller, Hebel, et al

“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
― Samuel Johnson, Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II

“Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“It has been observed in all ages that the advantages of nature or of fortune have contributed very little to the promotion of happiness; and that those whom the splendour of their rank, or the extent of their capacity, have placed upon the summits of human life, have not often given any just occasion to envy in those who look up to them from a lower station; whether it be that apparent superiority incites great designs, and great designs are naturally liable to fatal miscarriages; or that the general lot of mankind is misery, and the misfortunes of those whose eminence drew upon them an universal attention, have been more carefully recorded, because they were more generally observed, and have in reality only been more conspicuous than others, not more frequent, or more severe.”
― Samuel Johnson, Life of Savage;

“Doubt grows with knowledge.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.”
― Hunter S. Thompson