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The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?
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Every step of life shows much caution is required.
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When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.
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Experiments are mediators between nature and idea.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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All understanding begins in wonder!
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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
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A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]
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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.
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In comradeship is danger countered best.
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For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort.
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This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
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He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
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