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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.
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One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?
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The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
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The present moment is a powerful goddess.
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Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.
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Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.
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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
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We don't get to know anything but what we love.
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
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Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
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