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Nature is the living, visible garment of God.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
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Love can do much, but duty more.
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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
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Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.
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You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.
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Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
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This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]
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Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.
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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
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Very few people love others for what they are rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
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Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.
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He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
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It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
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I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.
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To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.
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