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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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Frankfurt/Main
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What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush'd the breeze, Sultriness, this fullness loving, Through the thicket, from the trees. Now the eye at once gleams brightly, See! the infant band with mirth Moves and dances nimbly, lightly, As the morning gave it birth, Flutt'ring two and two o'er earth.
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The artist has a twofold relation to nature he is at once her master and her slave.
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Writing is busy idleness.
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We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
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One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.
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Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
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The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.
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One mind is enough for a thousand hands.
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The present is a powerful deity. [Ger., Die Gegenwart ist eine machtige Gottin.]
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The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
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True art can only spring from the intimate linking of the serious and the playful.
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What is part of you, you cannot get rid of, even if you were to throw it away.
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There is no trifling with nature it is always true, grave, and severe it is always in the light, and the faults and errors fall to our share. It defies incompetency, but reveals its secrets to the competent, the truthful, and the pure.
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We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves otherwise, we harden.
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What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
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There are two things children should get from their parents: roots and wings.
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I always seek the good that is in people and leave the bad to Him who made mankind and knows how to round off the corners.
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It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place.
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A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
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