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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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This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.
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One needs only to get old to become milder I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
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I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.
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two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love
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To have more, you must first be more.
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The eternal feminine draws us on high.
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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow.
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Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.
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A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
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Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.
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What is fruitful alone is true.
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And future deeds crowded round us as the countless stars in the night. [Ger., Und kunftige Thaten drangen wie die Sterne Rings um uns her unzahlig aus der Nacht.]
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Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
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Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.
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