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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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What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.
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How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.
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My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.
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The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.
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In comradeship is danger countered best.
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The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.
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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
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The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
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Only law can give us freedom.
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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