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The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.

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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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
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The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]
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Let us live, while we are alive!
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No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
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Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]
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Men in a state of nature, uncivilized nations, children, have a great fondness for colors in their utmost brightness, and especially for yellow-red.
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Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
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Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.
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Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
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Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.
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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
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If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
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When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.
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National literature does not mean much these days now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.
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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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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.
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So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.
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