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Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
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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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
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Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
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Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!
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Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
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The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
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And future deeds crowded round us as the countless stars in the night. [Ger., Und kunftige Thaten drangen wie die Sterne Rings um uns her unzahlig aus der Nacht.]
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Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.
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How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.
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How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And thousand voices Each bush yields now. And joy and gladness Fill ev'ry breast! Oh earth!-oh sunlight! Oh rapture blest! Oh love! oh loved one!
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Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.
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Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.
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