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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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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The assault of our enemies is not part of our life it is only part of our experience we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.
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One must be something, in order to do something.
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To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
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One lives but once in the world.
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Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.
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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
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True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.
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We are our own devils we drive ourselves out of our Edens.
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We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
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If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go to the Poet's home.
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A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.
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The people rate strength before everything.
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There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.
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There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them
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