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The present is a powerful deity. [Ger., Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin.]
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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So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.
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The light is there, and colors surround us. However, if there were no light nor colors in our own eye, we wouldn't perceive such things outside of us.
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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
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A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
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Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
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Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.
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It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
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Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
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It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
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The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.
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I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.
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Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.
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