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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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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.
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Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
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Wind is the loving Wooer of waters Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.
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Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
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Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
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It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape it is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.
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The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
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The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!
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To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting
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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
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