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Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it
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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The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]
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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
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To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting
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Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.
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Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
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Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
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Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.
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Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.
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We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.
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We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
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In comradeship is danger countered best.
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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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Wind is the loving Wooer of waters Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!
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Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.
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It is opposition that makes us productive.
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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