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Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
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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Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed.
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I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.
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The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.
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If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away.
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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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What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]
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Properly speaking, such work is never finished one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
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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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We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
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The little man is still a man.
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To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
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