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Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written and of this but little is extant.

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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Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
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Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.
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Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
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Our virtues and view spring from one root.
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When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.
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But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.
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The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.
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Colors are light's suffering and joy
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For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.
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You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
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So much has already been said about Shakespeare that there doesn't seem to be anything more to say yet it is the quality of the spirit that it forever stimulates the spirit.
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
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On every mountain height is rest.
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Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
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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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Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
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He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.
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A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
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What then is your duty? What the day demands.
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We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
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