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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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If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
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Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
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Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.
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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
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It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
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Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.
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Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.
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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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Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
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Help me to discover Thy truth, O Lord, and preserve me from those who have already found it
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Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
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It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.
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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
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