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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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Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.
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My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.
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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
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Habit is the most imperious of all masters.
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Gray are all the theories, But green is the tree of life.
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In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.
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Gray is the color of all theory
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I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days
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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.
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There is no trifling with nature it is always true, grave, and severe it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.
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When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
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The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
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What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.
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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
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