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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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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
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Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
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The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]
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Every beginning is cheerful.
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To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.
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It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, Were he living I would make him a king but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.
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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
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I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.
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Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
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Mastery is often taken for egotism.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
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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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All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
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Every second is of infinite value.
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Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.
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The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.
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