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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
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I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!
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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
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Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
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Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.
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To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
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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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