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Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
Aphorist
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Frankfurt/Main
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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.
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One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.
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If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much
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The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
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Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
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There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]
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What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
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Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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People may live as much retired from the world as they please but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.
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