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The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
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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Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.
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He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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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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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
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One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?
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Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.
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Make the most of time, it flies away so fast yet method will teach you to win time.
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
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It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
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The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.
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For the nature of women is closely allied to art
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I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.
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