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Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
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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Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.
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Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
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We can stand only a certain amount of unhappiness anything beyond that annihilates us or passes us by, leaving us apathethetic.
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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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Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.
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The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
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The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.
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It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
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Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
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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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Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.
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Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.
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Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.
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Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.
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Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.
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Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.
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