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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
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Stupidity is without anxiety.
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We are not all equal, nor can we be so.
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The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]
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Habit is the most imperious of all masters.
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Everyone only hears what he understands.
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Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.
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I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.
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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
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It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
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Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
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Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
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