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Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.

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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Frankfurt/Main
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
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The summit charms us, the steps to it do not with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.
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All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.
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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
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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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One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames action animates, but narrows.
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The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.
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Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.
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Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
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Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
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What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.
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Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.
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What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.
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