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There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.
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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To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.
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The eternal female draws us onward.
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Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
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One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
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What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
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Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
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Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.
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He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.
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The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
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They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.
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What is not fully understood is not possessed.
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None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
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Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
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Everyone only hears what he understands.
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People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them.
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