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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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To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.
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Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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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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So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.
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The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.
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Let there be truth between us.
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This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.
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Life's objective is life itself.
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Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.
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Where there are no women there are no good manners
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
