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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

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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There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]
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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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How circumscribed is woman's destiny!
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To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
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There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.
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Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!
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A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
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Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
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He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
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So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
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Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.
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Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure whatever she commands, do.
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Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.
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When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
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