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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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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Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
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For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
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Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
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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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We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.
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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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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.
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Everyone only hears what he understands.
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What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.
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Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.
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Love can do much, but duty more.
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