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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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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
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Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.
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The one who acts is always without conscience nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
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Method will teach you to win time.
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What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.
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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
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People may live as much retired from the world as they please but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.
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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
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What then is your duty? What the day demands.
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Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.
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It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.
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A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
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Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
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Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
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Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.
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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
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We who didn't inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.
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Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]
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