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Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
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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Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.
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And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
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A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
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How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.
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Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
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One mind is enough for a thousand hands.
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If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.
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As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
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Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
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Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]
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What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
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Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!
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