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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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What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the trees. Now the eye at once gleams brightly, See! the infant band with mirth Moves and dances nimbly, lightly, As the morning gave it birth, Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
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It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
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Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.
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Precaution is better than cure.
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Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.
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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
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There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It is in the half fools and the half wise that the great danger lies.
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I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
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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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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else.
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If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
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Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love
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We don't get to know anything but what we love.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.
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