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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.
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To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
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A mind, once formed, is never suited after, One yet in growth will ever grateful be. [Ger., Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen, Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein.]
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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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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Energy will do anything that can be done in the world and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
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The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
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Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.
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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
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It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
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Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
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Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.
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Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
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Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
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Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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