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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.

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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Frankfurt/Main
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There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
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Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
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Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
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He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.
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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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If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.
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How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
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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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What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.
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The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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