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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

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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Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
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I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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National literature does not mean much these days now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.
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The history of mankind is his character.
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We don't get to know anything but what we love.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.
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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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To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.
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two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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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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And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
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When I say to the Moment flying 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!
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What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.
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