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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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Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.
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I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!
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Character - in things great and small - is indicated when a man (or person) pursues with sustained follow-through what he feels himself capable of doing.
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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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Gray is the color of all theory
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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.
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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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As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.
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Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.
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Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
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You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.
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If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.
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Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
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The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.
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Everything great and intelligent is in the minority
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What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.
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I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.
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The one who acts is always without conscience nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
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