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Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
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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Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.
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The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.
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Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.
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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
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But what is your duty? What the day demands. [Ger., Was aber ist deine Pflicht? Die Forderung des Tages.]
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English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method life must have a freed handling.
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Nature has neither kernel Nor shell
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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.
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Beauty vanishes virtue is lasting.
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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