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There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.
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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As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.
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Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
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Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
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Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated Begin it, and the work will be completed.
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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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A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
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Time itself is an element.
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Live dangerously and you live right.
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Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.
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It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.
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Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.
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Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.
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Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.
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The experiences show us just as we are they make us see our own defects.
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Error is to truth as sleep is to waking. I have observed that one turns, as if refreshed, from error back to truth.
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