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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
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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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
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Stupidity is without anxiety.
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
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Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.
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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.
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One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
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At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.
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