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The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
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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Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!
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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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It is not given to us to grasp the truth, which is identical with the divine, directly. We perceive it only in reflection, in example and symbol, in singular and related appearances. It meets us as a kind of life which is incomprehensible to us, and yet we cannot free ourselves from the desire to comprehend it.
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Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
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Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.
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What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
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For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]
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Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.
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Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
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He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
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Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
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A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
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To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.
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If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.
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The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
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All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless.
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The greater part of all the mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims.
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No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
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Not art and science only, but patience will be required for the work.
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Writing is busy idleness.
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