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For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Tis Lilith. Who? Adam's first wife is she. Beware the lure within her lovely tresses, The splendid sole adornment of her hair When she succeeds therewith a youth to snare, Not soon again she frees him from her jesses.
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Life is the childhood of our immortality.
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Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
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Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness when the danger increases she gives us greater courage
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The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
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But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go.
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Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together.
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One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.
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What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
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Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
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For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.
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Those only obtain love, for the most part, who seek it not.
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The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.
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Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side.
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We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
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Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.
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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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All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
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[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.
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To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.
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