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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
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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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
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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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As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.
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What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
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If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And thousand voices Each bush yields now. And joy and gladness Fill ev'ry breast! Oh earth!-oh sunlight! Oh rapture blest! Oh love! oh loved one!
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I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
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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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The artist has a twofold relation to nature he is at once her master and her slave.
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Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
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Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap.
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The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.
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Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
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