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No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.
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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Frankfurt/Main
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The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]
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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides.
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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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Live dangerously and you live right.
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One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.
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To have more, you must first be more.
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