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On all the peaks lies peace.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.
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To blow is not to play on the flute you must move the fingers. [Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]
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Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.
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Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.
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Riches amassed in haste will diminish but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.
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My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.
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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
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To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.
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Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell Storm or sunshine , guard it well.
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Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.
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