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That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
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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Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
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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... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
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Where there are no women there are no good manners
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Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others, Others, like blood. With saucy gesture Primroses flare, And roguish violets, Hidden with care And whatsoever There stirs and strives, The Spring's contented, If works and thrives.
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How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
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We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.
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To a valet no man is a hero.
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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
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There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.
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The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
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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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The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.
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