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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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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
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In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.
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Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.
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Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.
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The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
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It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.
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If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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The experiences show us just as we are they make us see our own defects.
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Only law can give us freedom.
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All understanding begins in wonder!
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Beauty vanishes virtue is lasting.
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Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
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If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!
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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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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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Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell Storm or sunshine , guard it well.
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