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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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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Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.
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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
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Make the most of time, it flies away so fast yet method will teach you to win time.
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The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.
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A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
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Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]
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Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
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To blow is not to play on the flute you must move the fingers. [Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]
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When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
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Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.
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No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men it is life that touches his genuine worth.
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