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What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
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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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
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In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.
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The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.
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We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.
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Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
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One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
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Nature has neither kernel Nor shell
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Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.
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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.
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It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape it is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.
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We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
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Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.
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