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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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The summit charms us, the steps to it do not with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.
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I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise, we harden.
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As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.
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One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
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If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
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You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else.
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He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.
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Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
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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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The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.
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There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]
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Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
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Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
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