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Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
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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Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
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The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources
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Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
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A noble soul alone can noble souls attract And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.
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The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
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What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.
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In comradeship is danger countered best.
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You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.
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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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Duty is the demand of the hour.
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It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.
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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
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We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies
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To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting
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To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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