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For precisely when concepts fail one, Words are found at the right time.
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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Fret not over the irretrievable, but ever act as if thy life were just begun.
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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.
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Of the truly creative no one is ever master it must be left to go its own way.
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The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.
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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
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The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
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Alas, that we should be so unwilling to listen to the still and holy yearnings of the heart! A god whispers quite softly in our breast, softly yet audibly telling us what we ought to seek and what to shun.
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Names are but noise and smoke, Obscuring heavenly light.
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Nothing is more odious than the majority, for it consists of a few powerful leaders, a certain number of accommodating scoundrels and submissive weaklings, and a mass of men who trot after them without thinking, or knowing their own minds.
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In art, the best is good enough.
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Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
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To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.
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The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.
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