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One must be something, in order to do something.
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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Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.
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Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.
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One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides.
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I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.
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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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My inheritance how lordly wide and fair Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
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I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.
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There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.
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Beware of a man of one book.
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I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.
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Nature has neither kernel Nor shell
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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.
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What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.
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For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
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The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
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He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.
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A person hears only what they understand.
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Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
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We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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