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Do thine own task, and be therewith content.
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 most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
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It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.
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Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
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Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell Storm or sunshine , guard it well.
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That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
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Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]
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In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!
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Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
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If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.
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To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.
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Precaution is better than cure.
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Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.
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It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.
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The experiences show us just as we are they make us see our own defects.
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If you have science and art, You also have religion But if you don't have them, You better have religion.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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As a man is, so is his God therefore God was so often an object of mockery. [Ger., Wie einer ist, so ist sein Gott, Darum ward Gott so oft zu Spott.]
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As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live.
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The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
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To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.
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