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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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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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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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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]
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If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.
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Love can do much, but duty more.
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Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
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With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.
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The aim of living is life itself.
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A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
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But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.
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We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.
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A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
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One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.
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The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it
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