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The highest cannot be spoken it can only be acted.
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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Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
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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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There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.
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Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
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Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.
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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
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We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.
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Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.
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Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.
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Beauty vanishes virtue is lasting.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.
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As our inclinations, so our opinions.
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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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Love, whose power youth feels, is not suitable for the elderly, just as little as anything that presupposes productivity. It is rare that productivity lasts through the years.
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And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.
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In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.
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