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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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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
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If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
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Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
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Riches amassed in haste will diminish but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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The experiences show us just as we are they make us see our own defects.
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To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
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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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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
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The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
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Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]
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The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.
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What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom. [Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.]
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The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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Every second is of infinite value.
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
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I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more intelligent one.
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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
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Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.
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Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
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