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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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Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.
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Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.
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He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
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To like things like, whatever one may ail There is certain help.
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There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.
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The eternal female draws us onward.
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The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.
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Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
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Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.
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