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Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
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If you have science and art, You also have religion But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
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One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
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There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
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The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
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It is not enough to have knowledge one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes one must also accomplish it.
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Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.
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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
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One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.
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Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.
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Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.
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In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.
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Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.
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Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.
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The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
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Truth is a torch, but a terrific one therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.
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There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]
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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
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