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The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.
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Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.
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There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
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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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For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.
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Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
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To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
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Collectors are happy people.
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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
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Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!
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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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The experiences show us just as we are they make us see our own defects.
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Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!
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