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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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The little man is still a man.
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Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.
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We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
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We are our own aptest deceiver.
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Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
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Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
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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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None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
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One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.
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Habit is the most imperious of all masters.
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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
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I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.
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The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.
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[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.
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It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.
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What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
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