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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Each man has his fortune in his own hands, as the artist has a piece of rude…

Each man has his fortune in his own hands, as the artist has a piece of rude matter, which he is to fashion into a certain shape.

In today’s wordsEveryone has his fortune in his own hands, as the artist has a piece of raw material to shape into a certain form.

Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCommonly attributed
Source
From the book Quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources, compiled by James Wood, 1893

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