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A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]

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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Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
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Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.
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One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides.
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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And thousand voices Each bush yields now. And joy and gladness Fill ev'ry breast! Oh earth!-oh sunlight! Oh rapture blest! Oh love! oh loved one!
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Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive.
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Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.
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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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Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.
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Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
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He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.
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Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.
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It has been said that figures rule the world. Maybe. But I am sure that figures show us whether it is being ruled well or badly.
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Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained.
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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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The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
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Of the truly creative no one is ever master it must be left to go its own way.
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