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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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Frankfurt/Main
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.
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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.
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If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, The same as everywhere.
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What we don't understand we don't possess.
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Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.
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If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
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Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
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My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.
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Our senses don't deceive us: our judgment does
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If you have science and art, You also have religion But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
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The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
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To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.
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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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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.
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