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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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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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A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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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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Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.
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The finished man, you know, is difficult to please a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
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On all the peaks lies peace.
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New inventions can and will be made however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.
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A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
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Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.
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Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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