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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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Frankfurt/Main
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Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it's the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The Skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated.
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It is not enough to have knowledge one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes one must also accomplish it.
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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A noble soul alone can noble souls attract And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.
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A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch his virtues and greatness belong to himself.
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Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.
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Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
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It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.
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Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.
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Energy will do anything that can be done in the world and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities will make a two-legged animal a man without it.
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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
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To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.
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At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.
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It is better for you to suffer an injustice than for the world to be without law. Therefore, let everyone submit to the law.
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The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.
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Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.
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No wonder we are all more or less pleased with mediocrity, since it leaves us at rest, and gives the same comfortable feeling as when one associates with his equals.
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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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When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.
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A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness.
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