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Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
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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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
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Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.
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The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.
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I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
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I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.
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If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
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Stupidity is without anxiety.
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It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.
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I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.
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Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.
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I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.
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Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
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The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
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Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
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Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Willing is not enough, we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
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