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Experience is only half of experience.
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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To make an epoch in the world, two conditions are manifestly essential-a good head and a great inheritance.
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My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin, Mein Herz ist schwer.]
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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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Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
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Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
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When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash.
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Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
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If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
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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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If we take people only as they are, then we make them worse if we treat them as if they were what they should be, then we bring them to where they can be brought.
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
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Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
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What a man does not understand, he does not possess.
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To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.
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