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Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.

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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How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.
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The little man is still a man.
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Properly speaking, such work is never finished one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
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Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.
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What is fruitful alone is true.
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Stones are mute teachers they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
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