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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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Frankfurt/Main
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How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And thousand voices Each bush yields now. And joy and gladness Fill ev'ry breast! Oh earth!-oh sunlight! Oh rapture blest! Oh love! oh loved one!
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What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.
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Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
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Mastery is often taken for egotism.
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Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.
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Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
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It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape it is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly.
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The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
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The history of mankind is his character.
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Do thine own task, and be therewith content.
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This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
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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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True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
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The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
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It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.
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Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
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