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The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.
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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A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.
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What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
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In art, the best is good enough.
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Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.
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Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.
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National literature does not mean much these days now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.
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Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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One glance, one word from you gives more pleasure than all the wisdom of this world.
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Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.
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The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.
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Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.
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This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
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One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them
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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
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Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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