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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
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Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.
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The suffering may be moral or physical and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.
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It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
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Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
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What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
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And future deeds crowded round us as the countless stars in the night. [Ger., Und kunftige Thaten drangen wie die Sterne Rings um uns her unzahlig aus der Nacht.]
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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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God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
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People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
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If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
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He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.
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How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.
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Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
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An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.
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They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
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