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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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Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.
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The history of a man is in his character.
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Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
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Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.
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To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]
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One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
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If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
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If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.
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The society of women is the element of good manners.
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On every mountain height is rest.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.
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The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?
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