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Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
Aphorist
Art Critic
Art Theorist
Autobiographer
Botanist
Composer
Diarist
Diplomat
Jurist
Lawyer
Librarian
Librettist
Literary
Frankfurt/Main
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.
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There is no patriotic art.
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I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting
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Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.
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To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
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No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly but of what is wrong one is always conscious.
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When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.
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The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
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Idea and experience will never coincide in the center only through art and action are they united.
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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
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We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies
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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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Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
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Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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