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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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Method will teach you to win time.
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For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]
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Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.
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For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.
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It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.
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Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
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True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.
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two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
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Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!
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Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.
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One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides.
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A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.
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The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
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Colors are light's suffering and joy
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