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Architecture is frozen music. [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.
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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
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If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.
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The arts are the salt of the earth as salt relates to food, the arts relate to technology.
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The world is for thousands a freak show the images flicker past and vanish the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.
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Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
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Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
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Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?
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As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
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What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
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My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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To like things like, whatever one may ail There is certain help.
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Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
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Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.
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As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.
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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
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The history of a man is in his character.
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