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Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.
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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What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the trees. Now the eye at once gleams brightly, See! the infant band with mirth Moves and dances nimbly, lightly, As the morning gave it birth, Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.
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To have more, you must first be more.
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Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
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Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
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Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
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Originality provokes originality.
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It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
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Make the most of time, it flies away so fast yet method will teach you to win time.
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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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People may live as much retired from the world as they please but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.
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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
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A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
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One is never satisfied with a portrait of persons whom one knows. That is why I have always pitied portraitists. One demands so seldom of others the impossible, but demands just that of the portraitists.
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Do thine own task, and be therewith content.
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Truth is a torch, but a terrific one therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.
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A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
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