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One should not search for anything behind the phenomena. They themselves are the message.
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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One spares old people just as one spares children.
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Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
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A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
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If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]
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Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On every mountain height is rest.
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What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
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The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.
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The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.
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Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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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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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
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It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.
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Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
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Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truth is a torch, but a terrific one therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.
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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
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Only law can give us freedom.
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
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