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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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Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others.
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I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!
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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
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The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.
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Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.
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The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.
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The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
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Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love
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To blow is not to play on the flute you must move the fingers. [Ger., Blasen ist nicht floten, ihr musst die Finger bewegen.]
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The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.
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He who is plenteously provided for from within needs but little from without.
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There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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Great possessions and great want of them are both strong temptations.
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I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.
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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
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