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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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The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.
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A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
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What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.
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It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, Were he living I would make him a king but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.
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Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.
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The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.
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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.
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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
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Nothing is worth more than this day.
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That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
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If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!
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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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