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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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Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]
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The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes.
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As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.
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Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.
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It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
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I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!
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The eternal female draws us onward.
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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.
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The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.
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It is not enough to have knowledge one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes one must also accomplish it.
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Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
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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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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.
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Writing is busy idleness.
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Every beginning is cheerful.
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What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.
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