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Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
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One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.
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All perishable is but an allegory.
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
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Willing is not enough, we must do.
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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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The experiences show us just as we are they make us see our own defects.
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As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.
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Experience is only half of experience.
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For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
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The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
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We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
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Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!
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Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
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The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse.
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Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
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Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
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No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men it is life that touches his genuine worth.
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