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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 style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.
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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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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
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Make the most of time, it flies away so fast yet method will teach you to win time.
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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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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
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If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
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Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.
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I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
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Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.
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If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!
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Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
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The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
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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 artist who is not also a craftsman is no good but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
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Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.
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The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
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The history of a man is in his character.
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When I say to the Moment flying 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
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