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The present moment is a powerful goddess.
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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Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
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Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
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Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]
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There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]
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All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.
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The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.
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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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If you have science and art, You also have religion But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
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