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One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.
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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The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, Even though this world is forever altering its values.
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There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.
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And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.
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A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
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Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.
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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
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The highest cannot be spoken it can only be acted.
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A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
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Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.
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Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms.
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It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise.
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Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
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Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]
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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
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One lives but once in the world.
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True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
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Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees.
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Superstition is rooted in a much deeper and more sensitive layer of the psyche than skepticism.
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