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A joy shared is a joy doubled.
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 don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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Wishes are premonitions of abilities.
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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
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I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.
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Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action
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Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.
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Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.
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What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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