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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past.
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Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
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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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The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.
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To appear at church every Sunday to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.
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Few people have the imagination for reality.
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Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time.
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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The eternal feminine draws us on high.
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If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!
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The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.
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Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
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Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.
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A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.
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Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
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Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.
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Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
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That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.
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Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
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All perishable is but an allegory.
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