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A purpose you impart is no longer your own.
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 I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
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If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.
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You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
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One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.
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Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.
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My inheritance how lordly wide and fair Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
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To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.
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Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
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The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks
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[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.
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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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Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
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Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
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The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.
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He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.
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