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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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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Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!
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Thou tremblest before anticipated ills, and still bemoanest what thou never losest.
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Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
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The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
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Let's plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will -- it's only action that can make a man.
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So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter. The violets and the Mayflowers are as its inscriptions or vignettes. It always makes a pleasant impression on us, when we open again at these pages of the book of life.
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A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
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Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method life must have a freed handling.
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Method will teach you to win time.
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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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The history of science is science itself the history of the individual, the individual.
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