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If you want to make life easy, make it hard.

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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One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?
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A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
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Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
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The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.
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As a man is, so is his God therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]
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If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.
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To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.
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People may live as much retired from the world as they please but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.
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In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.
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If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.
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Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
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Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
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When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.
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Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
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My inheritance how lordly wide and fair Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
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