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What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach.
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Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.
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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
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The summit charms us, the steps to it do not with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.
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Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences
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One needs only to get old to become milder I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Superstition is part of the poetry of life.
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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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Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.
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The finished man, you know, is difficult to please a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3
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The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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The arts are the salt of the earth as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
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