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Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
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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Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
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To appear at church every Sunday to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.
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There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.
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Man's restlessness makes him strive.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.
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We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.
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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
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