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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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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
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Duty is the demand of the hour.
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On all the peaks lies peace.
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The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others, Others, like blood. With saucy gesture Primroses flare, And roguish violets, Hidden with care And whatsoever There stirs and strives, The Spring's contented, If works and thrives.
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The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.
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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
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Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
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Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.
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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
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I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.
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Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
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There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.
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Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
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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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