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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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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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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An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.
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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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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
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Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.
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Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
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Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.
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Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.
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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
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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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Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
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Properly speaking, such work is never finished one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
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You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.
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