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Before you can do something, you must first be something.
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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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
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It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Precaution is better than cure.
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Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
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God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
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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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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.
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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
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Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
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Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.
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The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.
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He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
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Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
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The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
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The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences
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Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.
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