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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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Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
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One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
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God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.
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When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
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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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It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.
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Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?
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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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Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
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Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
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So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.
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The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
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Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.
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We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
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Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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