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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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Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.
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The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]
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He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.
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Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.
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The eternal female draws us onward.
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Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.
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To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.
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Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
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Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
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Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
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Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.
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The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
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You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.
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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.
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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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I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it
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