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Do not hurry do not rest.
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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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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National literature does not mean much these days now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.
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Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
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One needs only to get old to become milder I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
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Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.
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Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.
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How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.
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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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Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.
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Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.
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He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.
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When I say to the Moment flying 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!
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Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.
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With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.
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Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
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Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
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Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.
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The highest cannot be spoken it can only be acted.
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The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
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