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Originality provokes originality.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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People may live as much retired from the world as they please but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.
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What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.
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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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Treat a person as they are, they will remain so. Treat a person the way that person can be and is capable of being and that person will become as he or she can be and should be.
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The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
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Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage
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The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
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People always fancy that we must become old to become wise but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were.
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Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.
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Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
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The mob has nothing to lose, everything to gain.
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Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
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Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.
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One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
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