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One lives but once in the world.
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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Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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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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Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.
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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
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If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.
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Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
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Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.
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Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.
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We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
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Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
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I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
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Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.
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Manners form the great charm of women.
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