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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
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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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
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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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Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.
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To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it
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Love can do much, but duty more.
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If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.
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Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]
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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
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Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]
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A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
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It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
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He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.
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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
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Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings
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Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written and of this but little is extant.
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Precaution is better than cure.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
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