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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method life must have a freed handling.
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The world is full of contradiction.
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The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.
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It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
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Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
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For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.
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Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.
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Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
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The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.
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In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.
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The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.
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My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
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