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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]
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Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
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Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]
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It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
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It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
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If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
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No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men it is life that touches his genuine worth.
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Every step of life shows much caution is required.
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Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.
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Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
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What is not fully understood is not possessed.
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New inventions can and will be made however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.
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The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.
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In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
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