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Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]

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 one who acts is always without conscience nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down
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So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
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What is fruitful alone is true.
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What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]
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Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.
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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
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Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.
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The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
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Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
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The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.
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There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]
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A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.
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Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]
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A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
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What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
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Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!
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