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If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.
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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Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
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There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.
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The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. [Ger., Ein tag der Gunst ist wie ein Tag der Ernte, Man muss geschaftig sein sobald sie reift.]
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I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
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Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
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Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.
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A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.
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One lives but once in the world.
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For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.
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One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame
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How shall we plan, that all be fresh and new-- Important matter yet attractive too? [Ger., Wie machen wir's, dass alles frisch und neu Und mit Bedeutung auch gefallig sei?]
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It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.
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From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.
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It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.
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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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All beginnings are delightful the threshold is the place to pause.
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What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?
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Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.
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There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
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