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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.

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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Frankfurt/Main
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I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!
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The present is a powerful deity. [Ger., Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin.]
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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Nature has neither kernel Nor shell
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Our virtues and view spring from one root.
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How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And thousand voices Each bush yields now. And joy and gladness Fill ev'ry breast! Oh earth!-oh sunlight! Oh rapture blest! Oh love! oh loved one!
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Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.
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Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
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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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The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.
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Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.
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It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.
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Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.
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Blood is a juice of rarest quality. [Ger., Blut ist ein ganz beondrer Saft.]
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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