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True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.
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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I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.
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Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
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It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.
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Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.
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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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[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.
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For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]
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Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
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Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.
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A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.
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Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
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It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
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Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.
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