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Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
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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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
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I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ - as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests.
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He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
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Nothing is worse than active ignorance.
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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.
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Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
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The world is full of contradiction.
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This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
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One spares old people just as one spares children.
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Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise, we harden.
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True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.
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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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