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I respect the man who knows distinctly what he wants.
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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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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It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, Were he living I would make him a king but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.
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Properly speaking, such work is never finished one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
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I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!
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One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
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Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
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Were not the eye made to receive the rays of the sun, it could not behold the sun if the peculiar power of God lay not in us, how could the godlike charm us?
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Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
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Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
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The threshold is the place of expectation.
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Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born
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Everyone only hears what he understands.
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If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
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How circumscribed is woman's destiny!
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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise, we harden.
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The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure perform whatever she commands.
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I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.
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Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.
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Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World
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Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
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