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Action has magic, grace and power in it.

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 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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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
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Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
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Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
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There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.
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Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.
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One must be something, in order to do something.
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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
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The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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A joy shared is a joy doubled.
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What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.
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Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.
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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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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
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Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.
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Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.
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