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Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.
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It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
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The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
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The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
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One spares old people just as one spares children.
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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
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One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
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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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To act is easy, to think is hard to act according to our thought is troublesome.
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Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.
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Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
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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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Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born
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The threshold is the place of expectation.
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