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When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for 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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What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.
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Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.
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Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain.
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Sceptics are yet the most credulous.
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We are surrounded by abysses, but the greatest of all depths is in our own heart, and an irresistible leaning leads us there. Draw thyself from thyself!
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The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.
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Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
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As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.
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We are our own aptest deceiver.
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Yet here I stand poor fool what more, not one wit wiser than before.
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Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
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Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.
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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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There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.
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The history of a man is in his character.
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Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
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If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.
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