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Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.

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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Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.
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The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.
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Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
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Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences
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Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.
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Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier. Each animal is an end in itself.
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One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame
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If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.
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With knowledge comes more doubt.
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Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
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Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.
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For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the trees. Now the eye at once gleams brightly, See! the infant band with mirth Moves and dances nimbly, lightly, As the morning gave it birth, Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.
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Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
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What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.
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