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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.
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Time itself is an element.
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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
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The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
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Blood is a very special juice.
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
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Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.
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When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
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Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
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Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.
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The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.
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Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.
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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
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Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.
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