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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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No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men it is life that touches his genuine worth.
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The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
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Tolerance should, strictly speaking, be only a passing mood it ought to lead to acknowledgment and appreciation. To tolerate a person is to affront him.
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To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.
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Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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Idea and experience will never coincide in the center only through art and action are they united.
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Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
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The history of mankind is his character.
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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
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What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.
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I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.
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Energy will do anything that can be done in the world and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
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Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.
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Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.
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There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.
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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
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He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
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Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.
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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
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