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One mind is enough for a thousand hands.
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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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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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
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The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.
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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
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Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.
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To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
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Let there be truth between us.
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We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.
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Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
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The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
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Everything great and intelligent is in the minority
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This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.
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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
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If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
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The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.
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