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The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.

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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To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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Love can do much, but duty more.
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
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Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.
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What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom. [Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.]
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In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.
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It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
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