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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

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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We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
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Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
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One says a lot in vain, refusing The other mainly hears the No.
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Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.
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A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
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A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
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He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.
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How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.
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Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.
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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
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Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
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We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
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The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
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Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.
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The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
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How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.
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