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The people rate strength before everything.
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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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell Storm or sunshine , guard it well.
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The society of women is the element of good manners.
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Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.
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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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Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences
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Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
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Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.
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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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I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
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Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.
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Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.
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All perishable is but an allegory.
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The artist has a twofold relation to nature he is at once her master and her slave.
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It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
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