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Action has magic, grace and power in it.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
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I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.
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Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
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Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.
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How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.
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It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.
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In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.
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What then is your duty? What the day demands.
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To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.
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To create something you must be something.
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What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
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If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
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Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
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Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.
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It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.
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Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.
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When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
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