Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that...

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that...

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.

It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always...

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always...

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very...

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very...

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates...

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates...

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

For the nature of women is closely allied to art

For the nature of women is closely allied to art

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be...

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be...

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

Everything great and intelligent is in the minority

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or...

Wild intelligence abhors any narrow world; and the world of women must stay narrow, or...