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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
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The eternal female draws us onward.
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What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.
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Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.
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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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Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
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The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest to really see the things which are before your eyes.
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Who enslaves another's manhood with weak human power alone, Lays a heavier yoke of bondage thoughtlessly upon his own.
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Life's objective is life itself.
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
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Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.
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Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
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There are few who have at once thought and capacity for action. Thought expands, but lames action animates, but narrows.
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How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
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How circumscribed is woman's destiny!
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Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written and of this but little is extant.
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