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Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.
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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There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
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The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.
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He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
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Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.
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Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.
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One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame
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True happiness springs from moderation.
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To appear at church every Sunday to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.
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Every solution of a problem is a new problem.
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