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I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.
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Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
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Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]
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Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell Storm or sunshine , guard it well.
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Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]
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Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
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What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.
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People always fancy that we must become old to become wise but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.
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Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.
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The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.
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