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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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Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.
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When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
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Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
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The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
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This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.
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I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.
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But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.
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Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit.
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The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
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Impotent hatred is the most horrible of all emotions one should hate nobody whom one cannot destroy.
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Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His work enchant our sight?
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A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
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