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Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

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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How shall we plan, that all be fresh and new-- Important matter yet attractive too? [Ger., Wie machen wir's, dass alles frisch und neu Und mit Bedeutung auch gefallig sei?]
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It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.
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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
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As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
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If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
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Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.
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One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.
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Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.
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Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.
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The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.
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God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.
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Originality provokes originality.
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Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.
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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
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Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]
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The experiences show us just as we are they make us see our own defects.
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
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