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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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Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
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A joy shared is a joy doubled.
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Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.
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Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.
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Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.
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Nothing is worth more than this day.
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Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
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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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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
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Before you can do something, you must first be something.
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It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
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Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
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He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.
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