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Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.
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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Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
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Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
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It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.
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If you have science and art, You also have religion But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
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[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.
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Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
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We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.
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Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings
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