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What is fruitful alone is true.
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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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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Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.
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Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.
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Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
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The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.
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Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.
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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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Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living.
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Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.
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Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.
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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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In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.
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There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.
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Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.
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There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.
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