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In art, the best is good enough.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
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Originality provokes originality.
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
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Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure whatever she commands, do.
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Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.
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Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
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If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.
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It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
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Experience is only half of experience.
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
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