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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
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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Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
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The society of women is the element of good manners.
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What is not fully understood is not possessed.
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Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
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For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.
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Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
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If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
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The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.
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Age does not make us childish, as some say it finds us true children.
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Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.
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One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.
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There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]
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No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise, we harden.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method life must have a freed handling.
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