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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
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The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
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We all walk in mysteries. We are surrounded by an atmosphere about which we still know nothing at all.
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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
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Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
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Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
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Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.
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Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.
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He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
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He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.
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Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.
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The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
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We are our own devils we drive ourselves out of our Edens.
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Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.
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I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.
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Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
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Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
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