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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
Aphorist
Art Critic
Art Theorist
Autobiographer
Botanist
Composer
Diarist
Diplomat
Jurist
Lawyer
Librarian
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Literary
Frankfurt/Main
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In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.
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One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.
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The history of a man is in his character.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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The world remains ever the same.
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Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.
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Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.
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Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then soon, you too, will have peace.
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Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]
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Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
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Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
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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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Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born
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