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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#before #beside #connection #else #everything

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#govern #government #ourselves #teaches #us

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#character #laugh #more #nothing #people

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I want to warn against the Fifth Column which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland. ↗

— Theo Van Gogh

#column #fifth #free #hinder #holland

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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