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Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
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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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
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I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.
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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.
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Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
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We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
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All understanding begins in wonder!
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In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
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When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.
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