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If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.
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The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
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A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.
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Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.
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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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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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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.
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When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.
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There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.
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People may live as much retired from the world as they please but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.
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We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies
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If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.
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The one who acts is always without conscience nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
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