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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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I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.
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I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.
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To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.
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Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
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Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.
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Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
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A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.
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Be always resolute with the present hour. Every moment is of infinite value.
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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
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