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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.
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There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.
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One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?
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Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.
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Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
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The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.
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How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.
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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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Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.
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For the nature of women is closely allied to art
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Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.
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Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
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The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
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People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
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Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down
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