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Mastery is often taken for egotism.
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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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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No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.
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The suffering may be moral or physical and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.
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Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
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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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The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
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Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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Every second is of infinite value.
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Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written and of this but little is extant.
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He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.
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