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A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much
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To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.
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There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.
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Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
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People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
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If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.
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Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.
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This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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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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When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.
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Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
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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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Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks
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