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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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Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.
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Nothing is worth more than this day.
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It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.
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Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
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Duty is the demand of the hour.
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The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
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I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.
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Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.
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Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
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Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.
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A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
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Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.
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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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