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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.
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 bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like emeralds others, Others, like blood. With saucy gesture Primroses flare, And roguish violets, Hidden with care And whatsoever There stirs and strives, The Spring's contented, If works and thrives.
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Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.
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One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.
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A life without love, without the presence of the beloved, is nothing but a mere magic-lantern show. We draw out slide after slide, swiftly tiring of each, and pushing it back to make haste for the next.
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The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.
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The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
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True religion teaches us to reverence what is under us, to recognize humility and poverty, and, despite mockery and disgrace, wretchedness, suffering, and death, as things divine.
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One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
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I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it
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Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.
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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
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Action has magic, grace and power in it.
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Nature is the living, visible garment of God.
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