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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.
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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Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.
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Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.
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The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
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The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!
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That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
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Everything great and intelligent is in the minority
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Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.
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Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.
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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
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I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
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The art of living rightly is like all arts it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
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