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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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If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
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For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
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It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, Were he living I would make him a king but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.
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Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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The one who acts is always without conscience nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
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The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
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Properly speaking, such work is never finished one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
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The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]
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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
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The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.
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To act is easy, to think is hard to act according to our thought is troublesome.
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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
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The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
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That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
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Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
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