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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Life's objective is life itself.
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A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
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One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action
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Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
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If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others, Others, like blood. With saucy gesture Primroses flare, And roguish violets, Hidden with care And whatsoever There stirs and strives, The Spring's contented, If works and thrives.
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Don't give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
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The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.
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I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
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Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.
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To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.
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Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
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We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
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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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Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
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One spares old people just as one spares children.
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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
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