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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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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Very few people love others for what they are rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
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Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
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Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.
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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
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He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.
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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
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If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.
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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
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For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
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And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
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It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.
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Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.
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As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
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I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.
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Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.
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