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The man who acts never has any conscience no one has any conscience but the man who thinks
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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As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.
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By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
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Duty is the demand of the hour.
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Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
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two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
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To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.
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In art, the best is good enough.
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Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?
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Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.
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Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
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Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!
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What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
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