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Life is not anything, but an opportunity for something.
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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Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
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Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.
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Wishes are premonitions of abilities.
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The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.
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The one who acts is always without conscience nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
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Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
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We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
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If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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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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It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
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That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
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Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.
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Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much
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If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
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The experiences show us just as we are they make us see our own defects.
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I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
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To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.
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If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
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