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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.]

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.
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When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind. [Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen Haus Das Weib hat tausend Schritt voraus.]
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Very few people love others for what they are rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.
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Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.
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Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
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The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.
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Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.
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I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!
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New inventions can and will be made however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.
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My inheritance how lordly wide and fair Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir.
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Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?
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Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.
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One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.
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There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.
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