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Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.

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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Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
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Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.
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It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
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Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.
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Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.
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Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.
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He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
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Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.
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There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.
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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]
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Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.
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The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.
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If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
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You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else.
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The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.
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