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Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
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Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
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It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
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Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.
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The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
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The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure perform whatever she commands.
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Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.
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You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else.
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Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
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Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.
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Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
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The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
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[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.
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Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.
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Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
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Riches amassed in haste will diminish but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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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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Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
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Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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