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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
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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Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
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There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.
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The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.
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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
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We are our own aptest deceiver.
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Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
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What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom. [Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.]
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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
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You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.
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