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All perishable is but an allegory.

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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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Perishable
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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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National literature does not mean much these days now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.
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Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.
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Properly speaking, such work is never finished one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best.
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Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.
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The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
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Everyone only hears what he understands.
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Riches amassed in haste will diminish but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
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I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
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Every step of life shows much caution is required.
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No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men it is life that touches his genuine worth.
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The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
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Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
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How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.
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Mastery is often taken for egotism.
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