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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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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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We are our own devils we drive ourselves out of our Edens.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
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The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
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The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.
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We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
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Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.
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Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.
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Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
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What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.
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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
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If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.
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My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
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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 comradeship is danger countered best.
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Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.
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When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
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So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.
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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
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