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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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New inventions can and will be made however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.
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The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.
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Nature has neither kernel Nor shell
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The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
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Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love
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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... Man is a dialogue between nature and God. On other planets this dialogue will doubtless be of a higher and profounder character. What is lacking is Self-Knowledge. After that the rest will follow.
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The world is full of contradiction.
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Of the book of books most wondrous is the tender book of love.
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It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, Were he living I would make him a king but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.
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Action has magic, grace and power in it.
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The eternal female draws us onward.
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The flowers are full of honey, but only the bee finds out the sweetness.
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The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
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We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
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The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.
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