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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]
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Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage
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We are our own devils we drive ourselves out of our Edens.
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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
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Our virtues and view spring from one root.
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The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.
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Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.
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[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.
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He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
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Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
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The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
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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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There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.
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Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.
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It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
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When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
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Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings
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We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies
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Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
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Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.
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