Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, God, Soul, and World, Rhymed Distichs
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Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Water
What It Means
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Source: Wikiquote: "Water" (Quotes: Sorted alphabetically by author or source, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 862-63.)
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About Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it,