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The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.
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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Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
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One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.
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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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Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
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If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go to the Poet's home.
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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
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Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
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True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
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Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him, His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.
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We are our own devils we drive ourselves out of our Edens.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Method will teach you to win time.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.
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