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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

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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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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What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
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Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.
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The eternal feminine draws us on high.
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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
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Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]
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It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
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What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.
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Before you can do something, you must first be something.
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Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated Begin it, and the work will be completed.
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This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.
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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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Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.
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What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
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