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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

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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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
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Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.
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Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]
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Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic
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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
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Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.
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Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow.
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Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.
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For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.
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On all the peaks lies peace.
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Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
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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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Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.
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