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We are our own aptest deceiver.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.
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A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
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Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.
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There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
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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
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A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.
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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature.
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One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
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When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
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