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What we don't understand we don't possess.
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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Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.
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Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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To create something you must be something.
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Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.
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A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
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Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.
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Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
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He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
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Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.
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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
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