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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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The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?
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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
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Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
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Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.
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We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert
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There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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The present is a powerful deity. [Ger., Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin.]
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Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.
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Let there be truth between us.
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Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure whatever she commands, do.
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
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The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
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Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.
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And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.
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One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
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The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others, Others, like blood. With saucy gesture Primroses flare, And roguish violets, Hidden with care And whatsoever There stirs and strives, The Spring's contented, If works and thrives.
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