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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
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Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.
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No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
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You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else.
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A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise, we harden.
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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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Only law can give us freedom.
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Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]
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Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
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Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.
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I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ - as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests.
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There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
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The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
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Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
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Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.
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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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To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.
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