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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
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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Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
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What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
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If you have science and art, You also have religion But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
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If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.
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The history of science is science itself the history of the individual, the individual.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.
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Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]
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God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.
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Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
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Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
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Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
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The aim of living is life itself.
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Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.
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Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
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To a valet no man is a hero.
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As our inclinations, so our opinions.
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The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.
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Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
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One needs only to get old to become milder I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
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