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Love grants in a moment What toil can hardly achieve in an age. [Ger., In einem Augenblick gewahrt die Liebe Was Muhe kaum in langer Zeit erreicht.]

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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 day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.
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Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
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True works of art are a manifestation of the higher laws of nature.
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The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]
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By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
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The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.
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It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.
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Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.
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Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.
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If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
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The eternal feminine draws us on high.
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.
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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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