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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.
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Beware of a man of one book.
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action
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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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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
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It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.
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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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Live dangerously and you live right.
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To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.
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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
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The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.
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A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
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