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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
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What a man does not understand, he does not possess.
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Love can do much, but duty more.
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Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
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What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
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The one who acts is always without conscience nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
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Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
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Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.
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The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
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Most man 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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For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
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The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
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I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.
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The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest to really see the things which are before your eyes.
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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
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Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
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