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I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.
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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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.
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The suffering may be moral or physical and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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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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Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
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Willing is not enough, we must do.
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Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
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All beginnings are delightful the threshold is the place to pause.
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I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.
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We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
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The world is for thousands a freak show the images flicker past and vanish the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
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There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, Were he living I would make him a king but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.
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He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own.
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One needs only to get old to become milder I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.
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Gray is the color of all theory
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The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
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