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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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The society of women is the element of good manners.
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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]
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The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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One needs only to get old to become milder I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.
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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
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Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!
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Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
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If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
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One mind is enough for a thousand hands.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.
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Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
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