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If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much
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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Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method life must have a freed handling.
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That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.
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It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
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Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.
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He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.
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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
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