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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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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When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us we must go to them to find out what they are like.
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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.
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When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
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And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.
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It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
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As man is, so is his God. And thus is God oft strangely odd.
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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
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Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]
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Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
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At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.
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For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
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What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
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We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!
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In art, the best is good enough.
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Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
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