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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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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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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
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The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.
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He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
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If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.
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To a valet no man is a hero.
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We are not all equal, nor can we be so.
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Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.
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If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!
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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
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Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
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Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.
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He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
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Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
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Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
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The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
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Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.
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The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]
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