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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
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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It is opposition that makes us productive.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.
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Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
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A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
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