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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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I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
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Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
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Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
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Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
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Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
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The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.
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Originality provokes originality.
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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
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The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
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Riches amassed in haste will diminish but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
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I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
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It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
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I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more intelligent one.
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If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.
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I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it
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People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.
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Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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