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Sameness leaves us in peace but it is contradiction that makes us productive.
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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If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
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Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.
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In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant.
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A mind, once formed, is never suited after, One yet in growth will ever grateful be. [Ger., Wer fertig ist, dem ist nichts recht zu machen, Ein Werdender wird immer dankbar sein.]
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The present moment is a powerful goddess.
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If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
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The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.
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Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
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The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.
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Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.
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Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
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My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy— the purest joy of life.
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All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
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The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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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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It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.
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I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher.
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Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
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Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
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