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A mind, once formed, is never suited after, One yet in growth will ever grateful be. [Ger., Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen, Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein.]

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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One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.
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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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Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.
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Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.
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All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
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Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down
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We are not all equal, nor can we be so.
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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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Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.
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The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
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He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
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Wouldst thou ever roam abroad? See, what is good lies by thy side. Only learn to catch happiness, for happiness is ever by you.
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As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.
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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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Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.
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