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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.
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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Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
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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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Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
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To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.
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Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
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Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
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Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
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Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
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How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And thousand voices Each bush yields now. And joy and gladness Fill ev'ry breast! Oh earth!-oh sunlight! Oh rapture blest! Oh love! oh loved one!
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Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]
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There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.
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To a valet no man is a hero.
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Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
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The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.
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A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
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The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.
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Stupidity is without anxiety.
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Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.
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