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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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He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.- Henry Ward Beecher - I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
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The history of a man is in his character.
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The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.
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A noble soul alone can noble souls attract And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.
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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.
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What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.
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Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.
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Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
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Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
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The beginning of faith is the beginning of fruitfulness but the beginning of unbelief, however glittering, is empty.
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He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
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All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
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Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.
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Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.
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Experience is only half of experience.
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