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One says a lot in vain, refusing The other mainly hears the No.
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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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
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Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.
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He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.
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[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.
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Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
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There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.
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Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
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The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
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Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
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Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.
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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
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If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
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It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.
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How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.
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Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.
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