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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Frankfurt/Main
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I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.
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The arts are the salt of the earth as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
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Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
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Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action
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The artist has a twofold relation to nature he is at once her master and her slave.
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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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The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
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Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
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It is opposition that makes us productive.
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By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
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If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go to the Poet's home.
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The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
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Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
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The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
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The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.
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In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.
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