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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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The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.
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True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.
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When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.
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Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
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The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.
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Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.
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The one who acts is always without conscience nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
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Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
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two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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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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To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
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The coward only threatens when he is safe.
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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
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The art of living rightly is like all arts it must be learned and practiced with incessant care.
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.
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