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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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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Old age is never honored among us, but only indulged, as childhood is and old men lose one of the most precious rights of man,--that of being judged by their peers.
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There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.
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Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
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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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Habit is the most imperious of all masters.
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Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.
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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
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Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
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He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
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Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.
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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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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.
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The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.
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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.
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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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It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
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To a valet no man is a hero.
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