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Errors belong to libraries truth, to the human mind.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.
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A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
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All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
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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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Money lost, something lost. Honor lost, much lost. Courage lost, everything lost-better you were never born
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It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, Were he living I would make him a king but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.
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I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it
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Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
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Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
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A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
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The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.
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Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.
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Nothing is worth more than this day.
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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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Do thine own task, and be therewith content.
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The experiences show us just as we are they make us see our own defects.
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Everything factual is, in a sense, theory. The blue of the sky exhibits the basic laws of chromatics. There is no sense in looking for something behind phenomena: they are theory.
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The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.
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Time itself is an element.
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The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?
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