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Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

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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Frankfurt/Main
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
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It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.
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Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
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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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Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!
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Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.
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Hatred is a heavy burden. It sinks the heart deep in the breast, and lies like a tombstone on all joys.
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