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Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Frankfurt/Main
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
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My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.
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The world is for thousands a freak show the images flicker past and vanish the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
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You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites.
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The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
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We can redeem anyone who strives unceasingly.
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Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
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Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
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We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
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Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
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There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.
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For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]
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Why go further and further, Look, happiness is right here. Learn how to grab hold of luck, For luck is always there.
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I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.
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Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
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The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.
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