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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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Frankfurt/Main
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Energy will do anything that can be done in the world and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
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Let no one be ashamed to say yes today if yesterday he said no. Or to say no today if yesterday he said yes. For that is life. Never to have changed-what a pitiable thing of which to boast!
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He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
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When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
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What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
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The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.
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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
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Stones are mute teachers they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.
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It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.
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We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
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We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!
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Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
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Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.
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Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
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