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The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
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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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
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Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
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Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
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Architecture is crystallized music.
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Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.
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One says a lot in vain, refusing The other mainly hears the No.
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Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.
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Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
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If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go to the Poet's home.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.
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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.
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We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
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