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

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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Beauty vanishes virtue is lasting.
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Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
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An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.
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The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.
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The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.
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Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
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The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.
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For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does
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As our inclinations, so our opinions.
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A mind, once formed, is never suited after, One yet in growth will ever grateful be. [Ger., Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen, Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein.]
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It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.
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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
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One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.
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The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
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Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
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