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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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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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Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.
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In the colored reflection we have Life.
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Of the truly creative no one is ever master it must be left to go its own way.
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To blow is not to play on the flute you must move the fingers. [Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]
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What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]
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If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
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It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.
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Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
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So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.
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Riches amassed in haste will diminish but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.
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How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.
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If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much
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Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
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This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.
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If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.
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Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
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