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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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It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.
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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
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To act is easy, to think is hard to act according to our thought is troublesome.
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Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own.
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Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
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I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.
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Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
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By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
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Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire.
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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The angles even Draw strength from gazing on its glance, Though none its meaning fathom may The world's unwither'd countenance Is bright as at creation's day.
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Nothing is true, but that which is simple.
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Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
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When I say to the Moment flying 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!
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It is not enough to have knowledge one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes one must also accomplish it.
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Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
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To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
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True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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