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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 eternal female draws us onward.
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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Age does not make us childish, as some say it finds us true children.
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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
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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.
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Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.
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The assault of our enemies is not part of our life it is only part of our experience we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.
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Zweck sein selbst ist jegliches Tier. Each animal is an end in itself.
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Everything great and intelligent is in the minority
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others, Others, like blood. With saucy gesture Primroses flare, And roguish violets, Hidden with care And whatsoever There stirs and strives, The Spring's contented, If works and thrives.
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There is no patriotic art.
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To a valet no man is a hero.
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A phenomenon like Mozart remains an inexplicable thing.
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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
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One spares old people just as one spares children.
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The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers.
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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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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
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The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
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