All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; …

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience. ✨ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). The Wisdom of Goethe, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience. ✨ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Stuart Blackie (1883). The Wisdom of Goethe, Edinburgh, W. Blackwood

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