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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
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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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
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The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.
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The history of mankind is his character.
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Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
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Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
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Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
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