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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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So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
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I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
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It is not enough to have knowledge one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes one must also accomplish it.
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It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
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The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.
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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
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One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.
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Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
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Collectors are happy people.
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The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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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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There is no patriotic art.
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What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
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Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down
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Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.
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If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.
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Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
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