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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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The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.
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The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
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Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.
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The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.
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Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.
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A distracted existence leads us to no goal
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The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
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The present moment is a powerful goddess.
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My inheritance how lordly wide and fair Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
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Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
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I wait for the morning of my tears
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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
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And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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