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Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.

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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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!
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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
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The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
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Energy will do anything that can be done in the world and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
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Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.
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If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, The same as everywhere.
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Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
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