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Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]
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That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
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The angles even Draw strength from gazing on its glance, Though none its meaning fathom may The world's unwither'd countenance Is bright as at creation's day.
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Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.
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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.
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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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Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.
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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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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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Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
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Colors are light's suffering and joy
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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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We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
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One mind is enough for a thousand hands.
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Translators can be considered as busy matchmakers who praise as extremely desirable a half-veiled beauty. They arouse an irresistible yearning for the original.
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Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.
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If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
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When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
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