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There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.

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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I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.
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Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
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When you are in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude. We don't get to know people when they come to us we must go to them to find out what they are like.
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The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.
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Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.
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Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!
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The passions are like those demons with which Afrasahiab sailed down the Orus. Our only safety consists in keeping them asleep. If they we are lost.
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Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
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Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
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To know where a thing is we must have found it.
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Beauty vanishes virtue is lasting.
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We're really up against it, we poor women: A bachelor's a hard thing to convert
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The heights charm us, but the steps do not with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
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If all these devils really exist it proves there must be angels, too.
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Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
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Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
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The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]
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Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome.
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
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