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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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Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?
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Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough we must do.
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To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.
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Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone.
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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
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What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune nay, of other circumstances which gather round us in a harmonious way, whether it arise from a kind of fatality, or that man has the power of attracting to himself things that are mutually related.
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Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.
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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
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The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
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Method will teach you to win time.
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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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It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.
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The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.
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The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
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Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
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The summit charms us, the steps to it do not with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.
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