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Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
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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Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.
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Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
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What you desire when young, you have in abundance when old.
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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
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Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.
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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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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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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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If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go to the Poet's home.
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
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One can't dull a project better than by discussing it repeatedly.
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I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world.
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The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.
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What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.
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The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.
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There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.
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