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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
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One needs only to get old to become milder I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
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The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
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There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]
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Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.
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Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.
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Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.
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Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
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A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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Mastery is often taken for egotism.
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Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action
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The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
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The eternal feminine draws us on high.
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We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
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The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
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Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
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