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All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.

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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Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.
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Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
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There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]
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Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.
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A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
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To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.
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Properly speaking, such work is never finished one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
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A mind, once formed, is never suited after, One yet in growth will ever grateful be. [Ger., Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen, Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein.]
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You are certainly wrong to compare suicide ... with great accomplishments, since it cannot be considered as anything but a weakness. After all, it is easier to die than to endure a harrowing life with fortitude.
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Once you have missed the first buttonhole, you'll never manage to button up.
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
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