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The trouble is small, the fun is great. [Ger., Die Muh'ist klein, der Spass ist gross.]

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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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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To make a young couple love each other, it is only necessary to oppose and separate them.
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There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
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Very few people love others for what they are rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
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Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution.
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The bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others, Others, like blood. With saucy gesture Primroses flare, And roguish violets, Hidden with care And whatsoever There stirs and strives, The Spring's contented, If works and thrives.
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The history of mankind is his character.
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Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.
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God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.
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Time itself is an element.
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It is not enough to have knowledge one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes one must also accomplish it.
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The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.
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The highest goal that man can achieve is amazement.
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One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.
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I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.
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To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed That can make life a garden.
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We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water the furrows with tears. It is not just as we take it, This mystical world of ours, Life's field will yield as we make it A harvest of thorns or of flowers.
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