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Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.
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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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There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
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Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.
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Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.
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Mastery is often taken for egotism.
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Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.
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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
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A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.
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No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
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Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
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The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.
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True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
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Of the truly creative no one is ever master it must be left to go its own way.
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Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
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The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
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