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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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Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.
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One is never deceived one deceives oneself.
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
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Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.
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It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
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All our knowledge is symbolic.
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It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
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Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
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What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
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The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.
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Blood is a juice of rarest quality. [Ger., Blut ist ein ganz beondrer Saft.]
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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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In the colored reflection we have Life.
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