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I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.
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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Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.
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Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him, His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.
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Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.
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Time itself is an element.
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We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
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Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.
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One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?
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It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.
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All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.
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English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.
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When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us we must go to them to find out what they are like.
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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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Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
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All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.
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Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.
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A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
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The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
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