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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.
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With knowledge comes more doubt.
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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
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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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Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.
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Thou must (in commanding and winning, or serving and losing, suffering or triumphing) be either anvil or hammer.
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Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
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We don't get to know anything but what we love.
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If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.
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Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]
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He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.
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Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
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We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
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