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He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.
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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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.
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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.
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The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.
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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.
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Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.
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That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
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Mozart is a human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
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Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
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He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
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Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
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Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
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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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Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.
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If you want to understand poetry, You have to go to its origin, If you want to understand the poet, You have to go to the Poet's home.
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
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A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
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