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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
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Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
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To blow is not to play on the flute you must move the fingers. [Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]
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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
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Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.
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Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
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The world is for thousands a freak show the images flicker past and vanish the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
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Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.
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The world is full of contradiction.
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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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Manners form the great charm of women.
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If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.
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Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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