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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
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The world is for thousands a freak show the images flicker past and vanish the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
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Stones are mute teachers they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
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The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.
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My inheritance how lordly wide and fair Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
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[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.
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Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
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A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.
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Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.
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The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.
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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
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The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.
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One says a lot in vain, refusing The other mainly hears the No.
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It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.
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Energy will do anything that can be done in the world and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
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Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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