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At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist 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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There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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A joy shared is a joy doubled.
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I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.
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Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.
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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
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What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.
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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
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I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
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The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.
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Properly speaking, such work is never finished one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
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