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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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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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In comradeship is danger countered best.
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The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
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To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
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Our virtues and view spring from one root.
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I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
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The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
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The threshold is the place of expectation.
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As a man is, so is his God therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]
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Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
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The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.
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The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]
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Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
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Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!
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