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Everything great and intelligent is in the minority
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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Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!
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An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses.
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The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!
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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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National literature does not mean much these days now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.
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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
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Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
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A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
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