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There is no patriotic art.
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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Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated Begin it, and the work will be completed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age does not make us childish, as some say it finds us true children.
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To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
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No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.
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We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Very few people love others for what they are rather, they love what they lend them, their own selves, their own idea of them.
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God help us -- for art is long, and life so short.
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If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.
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Beauty can never really understand itself.
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Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.
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The whole history of the Christian Church is a mixture of errors and violence.
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All sects seem to me to be right in what they assert, and wrong in what they deny.
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One man's word is no man's word we should quietly hear both sides.
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Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot that it is securely founded that it be successfully executed.
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Experience is only half of experience.
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Few men have imagination enough for reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Originality provokes originality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
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