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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then soon, you too, will have peace.
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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
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The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.
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Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
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Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.
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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 trouble is small, the fun is great. [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]
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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
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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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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
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What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.
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Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
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Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
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It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
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Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What we don't understand we don't possess.
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Where there are no women there are no good manners
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