Quote of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - The person born with a talent...
Biography - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:
German writer and statesman.
Born: 1749 - Died: 1832
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Born: 1749 - Died: 1832
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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Quotes about happiness:
Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.
Quotes for: talent
Article VI – The law is the expression of the general will. All the citizens have the right of contributing personally or through their representatives to its formation. It must be the same for all, either that it protects, or that it punishes. All the citizens, being equal in its eyes, are equally admissible to all public dignities, places and employments, according to their capacity and without distinction other than that of their virtues and of their talents.
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also said...
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