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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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Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
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To appear at church every Sunday to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.
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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]
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two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
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Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.
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There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.
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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
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What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.
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