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Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

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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Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.
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All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
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Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.
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Man believes himself always greater than he is, and is esteemed less than he is worth.
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When toward the Devil's Hose we tread, Woman's a thousand steps behind. [Ger., Denn geht es zu des Bosen Haus Das Weib hat tausend Schritt voraus.]
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Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.
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Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
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A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
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To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won.
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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
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Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.
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The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
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Paternity is based anyhow only upon conviction: I am convinced, therefore, I am the father.
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It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
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As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.
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Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
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There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.
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Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.
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Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.
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What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us.
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