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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.
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Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.
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The present moment is a powerful goddess.
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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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Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.
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The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?
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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
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If we are out of synch with ourselves, everything is out of synch for us.
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If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.
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When I say to the Moment flying 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!
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It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.
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Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born
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The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
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The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.
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No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
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The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
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There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
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A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
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The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.
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