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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.
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I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
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One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.
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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
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Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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A distracted existence leads us to no goal
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A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.
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A mind, once formed, is never suited after, One yet in growth will ever grateful be. [Ger., Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen, Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein.]
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We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
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What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
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Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.
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Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
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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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Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
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In comradeship is danger countered best.
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Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.
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Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.
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