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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Frankfurt/Main
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The people rate strength before everything.
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If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.
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A joy shared is a joy doubled.
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
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He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.
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Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.
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The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.
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Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.
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No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men it is life that touches his genuine worth.
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Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?
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The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.
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Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
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One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.
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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
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Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?
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Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]
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