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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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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If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
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There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.
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Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.
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The angles even Draw strength from gazing on its glance, Though none its meaning fathom may The world's unwither'd countenance Is bright as at creation's day.
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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
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The assault of our enemies is not part of our life it is only part of our experience we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.
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Willing is not enough, we must do.
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The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
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We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.
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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
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Beauty vanishes virtue is lasting.
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Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
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Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]
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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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