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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
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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The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.
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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
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Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.
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The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.
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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it.
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Truth must be repeated again and again, because error is constantly being preached round about.
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A noble soul alone can noble souls attract And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.
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The art of living rightly is like all arts it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
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My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin, Mein Herz ist schwer.]
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One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?
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He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.
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To every one [Nature] appears in a form of his own. She hides herself in a thousand names and terms, and is always the same.
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To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.
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Energy will do anything that can be done in the world and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
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If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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Superstition is part of the poetry of life.
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