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We have time enough if we but use it aright

We have time enough if we but use it aright

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Use, Enough, Ifs

If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Law, Study
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.86, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Genius, Afar, Becoming
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1893). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.62, Library of Alexandria

Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character, Sea, Solitude
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1850). “Dramatic works: Comprising Faust, Iphigenia in Tauris, Torquato Tasso, Egmont. Transl. by Anna Swanwick. And Goetz v. Berlichingen. Transl. by Sir Walter Scott. Carefully rev”, p.227

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Noble, Earth
"Das Gottliche" (1783)

He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Doe, Faults, Beloved
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Mind, Noble
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1858). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.57

I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Anxious, Please

I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias. [Ger., Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen; unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character, Promise, Bias

He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Writing, Mind, Obscurity

Even dirt glitters when the sun is shining upon it

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspiration, Shining, Glitter

Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational, Hands, Interesting

A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Perfect, Sensitive
"Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 609, 1998.

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Simple, Desire, Easy
"Maxims and Reflections". Book by by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Elisabeth Stopp. Maxim 611, 1998.

A world without love would be no world.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Would Be, World, Without Love
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David Luke (1988). “Roman elegies ; and the Diary”

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Believe, Majority, Persuasion

The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beauty, Beautiful, Needs

No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Country, Garden, Doe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.791, Delphi Classics

Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Men, Clouds
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Edgar Alfred BOWRING (1853). “The Poems of Goethe, Translated in the Original Metres, with a Sketch of Goethe's Life. By E. A. Bowring”, p.220

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Feelings, Use, Moments

If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Doe, Management, Individual

Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thinking, Purpose, Persuasion

Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Book, Judging, Competent
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). “The Wisdom of Goethe”, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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