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True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.

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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We are never deceived we deceive ourselves.
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One lives but once in the world.
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Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
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Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]
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He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.
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Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
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We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!
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Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
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At the end of life thoughts hitherto impossible come to the collected mind, like good spirits which let themselves down from the shining heights of the past.
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Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them.
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There is nothing more frightful than an active ignorance. [Ger., Es ist nichts schrecklicher als eine thatige Unwissenheit.]
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Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?
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When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
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To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.
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One mind is enough for a thousand hands.
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What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.
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Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.
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