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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.
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Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!
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That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]
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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
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If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
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Everything great and intelligent is in the minority
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Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
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All beginnings are delightful the threshold is the place to pause.
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The experiences show us just as we are they make us see our own defects.
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The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]
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It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.
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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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