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Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

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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 man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks
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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
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God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
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So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.
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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
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The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.
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Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.
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What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the trees. Now the eye at once gleams brightly, See! the infant band with mirth Moves and dances nimbly, lightly, As the morning gave it birth, Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.
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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
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The finished man, you know, is difficult to please a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
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Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men it is life that touches his genuine worth.
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If you have science and art, You also have religion But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
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It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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