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Great passions are incurable diseases.
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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I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
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As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness.
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Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.
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A true German can't stand the French, Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
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Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
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When I say to the Moment flying 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!
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A noble soul alone can noble souls attract And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
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What is the universal? The single case. What is the particular? Millions of cases.
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The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.
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Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.
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We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
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My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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What is not fully understood is not possessed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As our inclinations, so our opinions.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
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People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
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