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Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.
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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Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!
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One says a lot in vain, refusing The other mainly hears the No.
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A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
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Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.
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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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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
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Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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The world remains ever the same.
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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
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This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.
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The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?
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Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.
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It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.
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The little man is still a man.
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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