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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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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
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There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.
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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
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Colors are the deeds/ and sufferings of light.
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The trouble is small, the fun is great. [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]
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The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
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It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.
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Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.
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While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
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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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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.
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Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
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One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.
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The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
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Every bird has its decoy, and every man is led and misled in his own peculiar way.
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We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
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My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.
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