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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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Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.
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Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
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There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.
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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
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Where there are no women there are no good manners
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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
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How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.
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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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Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]
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He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
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To a valet no man is a hero.
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If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
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It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.
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Love can do much, but duty more.
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The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
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Before you can do something, you must first be something.
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We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.
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One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days
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