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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born
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Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.
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But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]
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There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.
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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
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As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.
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Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
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I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.
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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
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The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
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If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.
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How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.
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A distracted existence leads us to no goal
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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
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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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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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Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
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