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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.

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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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One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides.
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God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
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Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.
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The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.
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I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.
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Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.
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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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Only law can give us freedom.
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
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Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?
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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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For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.
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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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Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
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It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.
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Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
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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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Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.
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