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Method will teach you to win time.
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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A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice.
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Make the most of time, it flies away so fast yet method will teach you to win time.
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Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
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It is the fortunate who should extol fortune. [Ger., Das Gluck erhebe billig der Begluckte.]
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Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
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So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
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To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.
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Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.
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Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.
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How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And thousand voices Each bush yields now. And joy and gladness Fill ev'ry breast! Oh earth!-oh sunlight! Oh rapture blest! Oh love! oh loved one!
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There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.
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The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
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Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
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Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. [Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.]
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Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.
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And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence.
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Lose this day loitering 'Twill be the same old story, Tomorrow and the next, Even more dilatory. Whatever you would do, Or dream of doing, begin it! Boldness has power, genius, and magic in it. Begin it now.
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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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