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The finished man, you know, is difficult to please a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.
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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
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All our knowledge is symbolic.
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Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written and of this but little is extant.
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True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
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The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
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Make the most of time, it flies away so fast yet method will teach you to win time.
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All understanding begins in wonder!
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He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
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It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, Were he living I would make him a king but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.
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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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