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A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.

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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Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
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One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides.
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Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
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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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We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
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No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.
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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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The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.
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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
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I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?
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I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
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