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Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.
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 knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
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In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.
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The world is full of contradiction.
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Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings
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An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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Make the most of time, it flies away so fast yet method will teach you to win time.
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What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.
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Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.
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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
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The arts are the salt of the earth as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.
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The experiences show us just as we are they make us see our own defects.
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There is no patriotic art.
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Everything great and intelligent is in the minority
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If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.
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Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.
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Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.
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Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
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