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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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Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.
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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
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None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
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I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!
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Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
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Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
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Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
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It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, Were he living I would make him a king but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.
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Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.
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The little man is still a man.
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Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
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I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.
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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
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One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.
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The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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