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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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If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
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True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.
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When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.
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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]
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The world is full of contradiction.
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If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.
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He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.
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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
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The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.
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Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.
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One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.
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If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
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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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In the colored reflection we have Life.
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What we don't understand we don't possess.
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Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over.
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