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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
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At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.
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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
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Most pioneers are at the mercy of doubt at the beginning, whether of their worth, of their theories, or of the whole enigmatic field in which they labour.
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Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.
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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
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Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love
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It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
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The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest to really see the things which are before your eyes.
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Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.
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True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.
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I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.
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Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
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That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
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Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.
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Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
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On all the peaks lies peace.
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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
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