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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.
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The present is a powerful deity. [Ger., Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin.]
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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
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For the nature of women is closely allied to art
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Man's restlessness makes him strive.
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There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]
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They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
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Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage
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The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!
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What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom. [Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.]
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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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Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
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All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.
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One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World
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Live dangerously and you live right.
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A mind, once formed, is never suited after, One yet in growth will ever grateful be. [Ger., Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen, Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein.]
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Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
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