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Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
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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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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The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
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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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Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.
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Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
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Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
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Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
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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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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
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Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.
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