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Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

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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At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.
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Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
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To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.
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Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education
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Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
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If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
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National literature does not mean much these days now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.
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There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]
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We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
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To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.
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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.
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The trouble is small, the fun is great. [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]
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The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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