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Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
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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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
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A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.
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Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.
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Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.
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Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.
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One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.
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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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Only law can give us freedom.
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The little man is still a man.
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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.
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With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.
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Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
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Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.
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We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies
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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
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