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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.
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I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.
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Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.
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One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.
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It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.
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English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre.
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We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!
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The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.
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The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days
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With knowledge comes more doubt.
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It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.
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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
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The history of mankind is his character.
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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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Wind is the loving Wooer of waters Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!
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