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One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
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The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.
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The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure perform whatever she commands.
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Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
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God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.
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The history of mankind is his character.
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The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
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The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.
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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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Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.
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Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
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Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
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The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest to really see the things which are before your eyes.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.
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What a man does not understand, he does not possess.
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