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One needs only to get old to become milder I don't see anyone make a mistake I hadn't also made.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself.
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Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.
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No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult.
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Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
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There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
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There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them
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Writing is busy idleness.
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There are two things parents should give their children roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly).
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The one who always strives, That one can be redeemed.
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By seeking and blundering we learn.
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He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
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Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.
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Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method life must have a freed handling.
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Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.
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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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In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
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Art is a mediator of the unspeakable.
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No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
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The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
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It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.
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