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If you have science and art, You also have religion But if you don't have them, You better have religion.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.
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The eternal feminine doth draw us upward. [Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]
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The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
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Do you want to live happily? Travel with two bags, one for giving, the other for receiving.
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Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.
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Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
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Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.
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The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.
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[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.
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The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise.
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I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.
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You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.
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Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it.
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To a valet no man is a hero.
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Time itself is an element.
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Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him, His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.
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Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.
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The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
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Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.
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To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
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