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One must be something, in order to do something.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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The highest cannot be spoken it can only be acted.
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The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]
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Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.
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What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.
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Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
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