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How circumscribed is woman's destiny!
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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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.
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I curse all negative purism that tells me not to use a word from another language that either expresses something that my own language cannot or does that in a more delicate manner.
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Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.
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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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The eternal feminine draws us on high.
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It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.
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Every step of life shows much caution is required.
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method life must have a freed handling.
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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