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Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.
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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Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.
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What we don't understand we don't possess.
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He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
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Blood is a juice of rarest quality. [Ger., Blut ist ein ganz beondrer Saft.]
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My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.
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The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
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In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
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