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Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
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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Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
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One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?
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As a man is, so is his God therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]
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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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Everyone only hears what he understands.
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The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.
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For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
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The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
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It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.
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Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.
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One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides.
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A distracted existence leads us to no goal
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two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.
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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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I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.
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