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To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]

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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We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.
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Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
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Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
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Behavior is a mirror in which every one shows his image. [Ger., Das Betragen ist ein Spiegel in welchem jeder sein Bild zeigt.]
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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
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Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]
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It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
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I am what I am, so take me as I am!.
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If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
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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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A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.
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Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
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So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
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What is the path? There is no path. On into the unknown.
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Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little.
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In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.
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