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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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Superstition is part of the poetry of life.
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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
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The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]
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There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them
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Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
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He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.
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If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.
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Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
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There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal.
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The deepest, the only theme of human history, compared to which all others are of subordinate importance, is the conflict of skepticism with faith.
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No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.
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Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself.
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One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
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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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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]
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Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.
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