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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 heights charm us, but the steps do not with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.
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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]
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All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.
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And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.
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Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.
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Age does not make us childish, as some say it finds us true children.
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
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The society of women is the element of good manners.
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One is never deceived one deceives oneself.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
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Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.
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One mind is enough for a thousand hands.
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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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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms.
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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.
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