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To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.
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Age does not make us childish, as some say it finds us true children.
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The world is for thousands a freak show the images flicker past and vanish the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
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This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
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Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
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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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We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.
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The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.
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The little man is still a man.
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
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It is opposition that makes us productive.
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My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.
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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
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When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.
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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
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The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources
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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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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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