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Beware of a man of one book.
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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Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated Begin it, and the work will be completed.
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Man's restlessness makes him strive.
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Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then soon, you too, will have peace.
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There is no trifling with nature it is always true, grave, and severe it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.
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The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.
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Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
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Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]
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Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
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If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
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The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
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The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
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Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.
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If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.
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To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
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