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Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours.
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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Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.
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Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
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One lives but once in the world.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.
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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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All our knowledge is symbolic.
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He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
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The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.
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Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.
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Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!
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None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.
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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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In art, to express the infinite one should suggest infinitely more than is expressed.
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If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much
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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.
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