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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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Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.
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Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.
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On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
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Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
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If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.
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So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.
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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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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
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Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
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It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.
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Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
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Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
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It is not enough to have knowledge one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes one must also accomplish it.
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We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.
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A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
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To act is easy, to think is hard to act according to our thought is troublesome.
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There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.
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Method will teach you to win time.
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