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The little man is still a man.
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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Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
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I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.
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How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And thousand voices Each bush yields now. And joy and gladness Fill ev'ry breast! Oh earth!-oh sunlight! Oh rapture blest! Oh love! oh loved one!
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Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element.
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It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.
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The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
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The people rate strength before everything.
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The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.
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Wishes are premonitions of abilities.
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