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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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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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That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
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The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
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It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
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It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.
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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.
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The arts are the salt of the earth as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
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Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
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Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.
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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
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The threshold is the place of expectation.
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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
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You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken you study mineralogy best among miners and so with everything else.
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Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier. Each animal is an end in itself.
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One spares old people just as one spares children.
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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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