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Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Frankfurt/Main
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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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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.
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A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
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Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
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What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
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The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.
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Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
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One must be something, in order to do something.
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The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.
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I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!
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If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
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Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.
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Riches amassed in haste will diminish but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.
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