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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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Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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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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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
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What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.
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Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
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Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
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What we don't understand we don't possess.
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Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
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We don't get to know anything but what we love.
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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One lives but once in the world.
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What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.
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To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
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Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.
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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
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