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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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Every step of life shows much caution is required.
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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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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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Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
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Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
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Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated Begin it, and the work will be completed.
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For the nature of women is closely allied to art
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Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
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There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
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A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.
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We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
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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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Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.
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And future deeds crowded round us as the countless stars in the night. [Ger., Und kunftige Thaten drangen wie die Sterne Rings um uns her unzahlig aus der Nacht.]
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Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
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To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
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As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
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