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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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Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.
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Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method life must have a freed handling.
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In the colored reflection we have Life.
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Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
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Truth is a torch, but a terrific one therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
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One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
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It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, Were he living I would make him a king but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.
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Errors belong to libraries truth, to the human mind.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
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The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.
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The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.
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