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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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Every beginning is cheerful.
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Riches amassed in haste will diminish but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.
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The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
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Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.
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One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
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If society gives up the right to impose the death penalty, then self-help will appear again and personal vendettas will be around the corner.
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What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
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To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting
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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
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Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell Storm or sunshine , guard it well.
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Stupidity is without anxiety.
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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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Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
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I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.
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In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.
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I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.
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Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.
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Wind is the loving Wooer of waters Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!
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