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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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The eye doesn't see any shapes, it sees only what is differentiated through light and dark or through colors.
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Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.
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How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.
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What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the trees. Now the eye at once gleams brightly, See! the infant band with mirth Moves and dances nimbly, lightly, As the morning gave it birth, Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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Every step of life shows much caution is required.
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I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
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There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
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What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.
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This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
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The modern age has a false sense of superiority, because of the great mass of data at its disposal. But the valid criterion of distinction is rather the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.
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To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities
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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
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Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
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