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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
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 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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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
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So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.
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As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.
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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
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Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.
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As our inclinations, so our opinions.
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Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.
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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
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If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
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Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.
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Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell Storm or sunshine , guard it well.
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The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!
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Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
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We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!
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Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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What matters in art is not thinking but making.
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
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