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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And thousand voices Each bush yields now. And joy and gladness Fill ev'ry breast! Oh earth!-oh sunlight! Oh rapture blest! Oh love! oh loved one!
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
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It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
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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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English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.
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The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.
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Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.
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Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!
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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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I can promise to be upright, but not to be without bias. [Ger., Aufrichtig zu sein kann ich versprechen unparteiisch zu sein aber nicht.]
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I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
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He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.
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Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.
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There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.
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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
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