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Few people have the imagination for reality.

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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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
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Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
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Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.
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If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
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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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Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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Superstition is part of the poetry of life.
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One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
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To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.
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Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.
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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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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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