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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.
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What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
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Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?
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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
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All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.
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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
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As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.
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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
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For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]
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Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
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Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]
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We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
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True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.
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Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.
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Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.
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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
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The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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