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Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.
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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He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.
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The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
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I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.
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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
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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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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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two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
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The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]
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To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
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If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
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Beware of a man of one book.
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Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
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Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.
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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
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