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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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The society of women is the element of good manners.
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Man knows himself only insofar as he knows the world, becoming aware of it if only within himself, and of himself self only within it. Each new subject, well observed, opens up within us a new organ of thought.
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It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.
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Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
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Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given The dearest child of Faith is Miracle.
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The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.
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Man, be he who he may, experiences a last piece of good fortune and a last day. [Ger., Der Mensch erfahrt, er sei auch wer er mag, Ein letztes Gluck und einen letzten Tag.]
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Every beginning is cheerful.
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A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
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Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.
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I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!
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Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite.
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First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
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The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist.
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What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
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When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.
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Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!
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Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.
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The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.
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