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You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.

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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Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.
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A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.
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Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
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The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure perform whatever she commands.
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If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
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I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.
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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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Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
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The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.
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We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert
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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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We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
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Idea and experience will never coincide in the center only through art and action are they united.
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There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]
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What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
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Gray is the color of all theory
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What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.
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