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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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Frankfurt/Main
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How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And thousand voices Each bush yields now. And joy and gladness Fill ev'ry breast! Oh earth!-oh sunlight! Oh rapture blest! Oh love! oh loved one!
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A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
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The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
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Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method life must have a freed handling.
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Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
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Stones are mute teachers they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
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The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
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It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
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What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
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The eternal feminine draws us on high.
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Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
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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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Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
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