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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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Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.
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Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.
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Some of our weaknesses are born in us, others are the result of education it is a question which of the two gives us most trouble.
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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
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They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!
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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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Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.
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Riches amassed in haste will diminish but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.
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Stupidity is without anxiety.
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All one needs to do is declare oneself free and one will immediately feel dependent. If you dare to declare yourself dependent, you feel independent.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
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Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.
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The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
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Beware of a man of one book.
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[Nature's] crown is Love. Only through Love can we come near her. She puts gulfs between all things, and all things strive to be interfused. She isolates everything, that she may draw everything together. With a few draughts from the cup of Love she repays for a life full of trouble.
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When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.
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I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
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