All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.


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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

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A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

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We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

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